AEWA grows to 63 Parties with Ethiopia joining the Agreement
The UNEP/AEWA Secretariat is very pleased to announce that the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia will become the 63rd Party to the Agreement as of 1st February 2010. In addition, Ethiopia has deposited its instruments of accession to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS) and will become the 113th Party to CMS with effect from 1 January 2010. [read on]
WOW Training of Trainers Course takes place in Limbe, Cameroon
Post-WOW flyway partnership agreement takes shape in Bonn
Representatives from the Wings Over Wetlands partners BirdLife International, Wetlands International and the AEWA Secretariat came together at the UN Premises in Bonn, Germany from 10-11 November 2009 to work out the details of an inter-agency Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) for continued collaborative flyway-level action in the AEWA region for the period following the conclusion of the Wings Over Wetlands (WOW) UNEP-GEF African-Eurasian Flyways Project. [read on]
And the winners of the 2009 World Migratory Bird Day Drawing Competition are…
It’s official! The winners of the 2009 World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) Drawing Competition have now been selected! The WMBD team at the Secretariats of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (UNEP/AEWA) and Convention on Migratory Species (UNEP/CMS) congratulate the winners and thank all the participants for taking action and sharing their creative and visionary artwork with us. [read on]
Sweden hosts 12th IUCN/Wetlands International Goose Specialist Group Meeting
Goose experts from 19 countries as well as representatives from several international organizations gathered at Höllviken, Sweden from 9 - 13 October 2009 for the 12th meeting of the IUCN/ Wetlands International Goose Specialist Group. The meeting was organized and hosted by Leif Nilsson from the University of Lund, sponsored by the Swedish Environment Protection Agency and chaired by Bart Ebbinge. [read on]
Norway publishes National Action Plan for the Lesser White-fronted Goose
The Norwegian Ministry of the Environment has launched the Norwegian National Action Plan for the conservation of the globally threatened Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser erythropus). The goal is to halt the decline of the Fennoscandian population which breeds in northern Norway within the next five years and in the long run, to increase the population to 1000 birds. [read on]
Welcome to Ms. Catherine Lehmann as Programme Officer
The AEWA Secretariat is happy to have been able to recruit Ms. Catherine Lehmann for the position of Programme Officer. Catherine is of French and German nationality and has a background in Law with a focus on International Environmental Law, and Journalism. Besides her native tongues (French and German), Catherine is also fluent in English. She has been working for the CMS Family since 2003 and joined the AEWA Secretariat in early 2005 to take the lead in organizing the 3rd Meeting of the Parties to AEWA as well as the AEWA 10th Anniversary celebrations. [read on]
Technical Series No. 35 and Popular Series No. 2 - two new AEWA publications now available!
The AEWA Secretariat is pleased to announce the release of its Technical Series No. 35 and its Popular Series No. 2. Both publications can be downloaded from the AEWA website and hardcopies of the publications are now available from the Secretariat. [read on]
In Focus: AEWA Conservation Guideline No. 6 - Guidelines on sustainable harvest of migratory waterbirds
Trade can be defined as the exchange of goods for money or other goods, either on domestic or international level. The types of trade involving waterbirds include the trade in food, hunting trophies, zoo specimens, pets or traditional medicines; this type of trade can involve a low level of commercialisation (e.g. rural market trade) or be entirely profit-oriented (e.g. international trade in rare species). [read on]
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