[ AEWA E-Newsletter: Issue #30 ]
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"Networking for Migratory Species" Theme of CMS COP10 in Bergen, Norway
The
10th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the Convention
on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (UNEP/CMS) is taking
place in Bergen, Norway from 20-25 November 2011. At the meeting, close
to 300 representatives from governmental and non-governmental organizations
as well as key experts and scientists are coming together to discuss urgent
conservation responses to address the rapid decline of many migratory animal
species across the planet. [read
on]
7th Meeting of the AEWA Standing Committee to Take Place in Bergen, Norway
The
7th Meeting of the Standing Committee (StC7) of the Agreement on the Conservation
of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) will take place in the city
of Bergen in Norway from 26-27 November 2011. The meeting will directly
follow the 10th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention
on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS COP10) which
is taking place in Bergen from 20-25 November 2011. [read
on]
AEWA Welcomes the Republic of Chad and Montenegro - Parties No. 64 and No. 65 Join the Agreement!
The
UNEP/AEWA Secretariat is very pleased to announce that the Republic of Chad
and Montenegro have submitted their instruments of accession to the Depositary.
The Agreement entered into force for both countries as of 1 November 2011,
thus increasing AEWA’s membership to 65 parties. [read
on]
Global Flyway Initiatives Workshop in South Korea Establishes a "Global Interflyway Network" (GIN)
With
the generous support of Seosan City (Republic of Korea), the Government
of Switzerland and the Secretariat of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway
Partnership (EAAFP), an international workshop to review good practice in
international initiatives for the conservation of migratory waterbirds and
other migratory birds was convened by the Secretariats of the Ramsar Convention,
the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
(CMS), the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds
(AEWA), the EAAFP and BirdLife International as well as Wetlands International.
[read
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African Preparatory Negotiation Workshop Empowers CMS and AEWA Negotiators
A three-day preparatory negotiation workshop for Africa took place from
26-28 October 2011 in Entebbe, Uganda. The workshop, which targeted CMS
national focal points as well as a number from AEWA in the African region,
was jointly organized by the UNEP/CMS and UNEP/AEWA Secretariats, with support
from the Division of Environmental Law and Conventions (DELC) of the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). [read
on]
10th Meeting of the AEWA Technical Committee in Kenya
The
10th Meeting of the AEWA Technical Committee (TC10) took place in Naivasha,
Kenya from 12 - 16 September 2011. The meeting was kindly hosted by the
Kenya Wildlife Service at its training institute close to Lake Naivasha,
the second largest freshwater lake in Kenya and home to a large variety
of bird species, about 90 km northwest of Nairobi. [read
on]
UNEP/AEWA Secretariat Launches Online National Reporting Cycle for MOP5
The
UNEP/AEWA Secretariat is pleased to announce that it has launched the national
reporting cycle for the 5th Meeting of the Parties to AEWA (MOP5, 14-18
May 2012 in La Rochelle, France) using a new state-of-the-art electronic
platform for online reporting. For the first time, the Parties to AEWA will
be submitting their national reports via a customized, web-based template
based on the Online Reporting System (ORS) developed by the UNEP World Conservation
and Monitoring Centre (WCMC) in close cooperation with the UNEP/AEWA Secretariat.
[read
on]
WOW Products and Flyway Training Needs Highlighted at Ramsar African Regional COP Preparatory Meeting
Representatives of the Post-WOW Flyway Partnership presented the newly published
French version of the Wings Over Wetlands (WOW) Project’s Flyway Training
Kit (FTK) to the participants at the African Regional Preparatory Meeting
for Ramsar COP11, which took place in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, from 3-8
October 2011. The FTK and the Critical Site Network Tool (CSN Tool) are
two of the main products developed in the context of the WOW, one of the
largest flyway conservation projects ever carried out in the African-Eurasian
region. [read
on]
Round-up of Lesser White-fronted Goose Conservation News
International
conservation efforts for the Western Palearctic sub-populations of the globally
threatened Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser erythropus), coordinated
by the AEWA Lesser White-fronted Goose International Working Group and the
UNEP/AEWA Secretariat, continue to gain momentum. Current activities include
several small scale conservation projects being carried out along the flyway
of the Western main population, the start of a new European Union (EU) LIFE+
project for the European flyway as well as the continued implementation
of national conservation measures, which are slowly starting to bear fruit.
[read
on]
In Focus: AEWA Popular Series - Phasing out the Use of Lead Shot for Hunting in Wetlands
According
to Paragraph 4.1.4 of the AEWA Action Plan, all Parties to AEWA "shall
endeavour to phase out the use of lead shot for hunting in wetlands as soon
as possible and in accordance with self-imposed and published timetables."
An international review on the use of lead shot for hunting in wetlands
undertaken in 2007 by the UNEP/AEWA Secretariat has shown that the problem
is still far from solved in the majority of the AEWA Range States, despite
the active involvement of partner organizations such as the International
Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC) and the Federation of Associations
for Hunting and Conservation of the EU (FACE). [read
on]
In Focus: AEWA Conservation Guidelines No. 1 – Guidelines on the Preparation of National Single Species Action Plans for Migratory Waterbirds
A
Single Species Action Plan (SSAP) is a prescriptive plan for a species or
a population of a species, aimed at maintaining that species at, or restoring
it to, a favourable conservation status. According to Paragraph 2.2 of the
AEWA Action Plan, Parties to AEWA shall co-operate with a view to developing
and implementing international SSAPs for those populations of migratory
waterbirds listed in Category 1 of Column A of Table 1 to the Agreement’s
Action Plan and those Column A populations marked with an asterisk. [read
on]
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