World Wildlife Day on 3 March!
At the end of 2013, the United Nations General Assembly declared 3 March as World Wildlife Day as a global commemorative day to celebrate the world’s wild fauna and flora and to raise awareness of the many benefits that wildlife provides to people. The date marks the anniversary of the signing of the of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species [Read on]
CMS and AEWA Establish Common Team to Strengthen Information and Outreach
A new pilot phase of shared services between the UNEP/CMS and UNEP/AEWA Secretariats has started to explore synergies and the mutual benefits arising from common services in the areas of information management, communication and outreach. In accordance with efforts spearheaded by UNEP and set out in the landmark Rio +20 document. [Read on]
Join World Migratory Bird Day 2014 – Destination Flyways: Migratory Birds and Tourism
The Secretariats of the UNEP Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) and the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) would like to invite all AEWA Parties, partners and supporters to join the global celebration of the ninth annual World Migratory Bird Day on 10-11 May 2014. This year’s World Migratory Bird Day theme “Destination Flyways. Migratory Birds [Read on]
Flyway Training of Trainers Workshop for Portuguese-speaking African Countries in Angola
A Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop on the Flyway Approach to the Conservation and Wise Use of Waterbirds and Wetlands took place in Luanda, Angola from 27 to 31 January 2014. The workshop targeted technical experts from the five African countries in which Portuguese is an official language: Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé. [Read on]
African Initiative News in Brief
The African Initiative of AEWA continues to move ahead! Find out more about what has happened since the last edition of the AEWA e-newsletter in the ‘News in brief’ section below. [Read on]
Update on the AEWA Species Working Groups
Work on AEWA International Single Species Action Plans and their respective Working Groups continues to gain momentum. In addition to ongoing efforts to produce new Species Action Plans for the Taiga Bean Goose (Anser f. fabalis) and the Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis), early 2014 also saw activities under the AEWA Red-breasted Goose, Lesser White-fronted Goose [Read on]
Four Further AEWA International Single Species Action Plans Published
International Single Species Action Plans (ISSAPs) are the key instrument developed under AEWA for the purpose of implementing coordinated measures to restore migratory waterbird species to a favourable conservation status. International cooperation among the species’ range states is essential for implementation of these action plans [Read on]
In Focus: AEWA Conservation Guidelines No. 12 – Guidelines on Measures Needed to Help Waterbirds to Adapt to Climate Change
Climate change is today considered to be the world’s biggest environmental challenge. The warming of the climate is an undisputed fact and it is very likely that the Earth’s rising temperature over the last half-century has been induced largely by anthropogenic activities. The latter now also extend to other climate-related aspects such as sea-level rise, temperature extremes [Read on]
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