The groundbreaking book ‘Waterbirds around the World’ gives a compilation and overview of today’s knowledge on the conservation of waterbird species and their flyways. It provides substantial information on the ecology and behaviour of migrating waterbirds and touches on many cross-cutting topics such as the management of flyways and upcoming issues like climate change and avian influenza. New data on 170 globally threatened and near threatened species is presented. With altogether 264 papers relating to 614 waterbirds species from 162 countries it has a truly global scope and represents the work and research of leading scientists and experts from around the world. The publication is an important resource for conservation policy-makers and for future conservation work. The book was officially release at an international event in The Hague, Netherlands on 12 March 2007.