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28 March 2014Welcome to the new ASCOBANS Website!
As part of the CMS Family Website Project, ASCOBANS is pleased to present today this new online presence.
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28 March 2014Study Group Launched to Support CMS Migratory Landbirds Action Plan
Black-necked Weaver © Robert Vagg
Bonn, 29 March 2014 - The Migratory Landbirds Study Group (MLSG) was launched at an inaugural meeting “Migratory landbirds: research, monitoring and conservation” in Wilhelmshaven (Germany) on the 26-28 March 2014.
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27 March 2014Experts Meet to Develop Plan to Conserve the Pacific Loggerhead Turtle
Loggerhead Turtle © Colin Limpus
Bonn/Brisbane, 27 March 2014 - Fifteen experts met in Brisbane, Australia, from 25 to 27 March to develop a Single Species Action Plan for the Pacific Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta).
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24 March 2014CMS Executive Secretary has Audience with HRH Prince Charles
HRH Prince Charles © Dougie Barnett Photography
Bonn, 24 March 2014 - The Executive Secretary of CMS, Dr. Bradnee Chambers, had the rare honour of meeting HRH Prince Charles at Clarence House, the Prince’s official residence, in London on 18 March.
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20 March 2014CMS and WHMSI Working Together to Conserve Flyways of the Americas
participants at the CMS/WHMSI meetings in Montego Bay, Jamaica
Bonn, 20 March 2014 - From 11 to 14 March 2014 representatives from the Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative (WHMSI) and members of the CMS Flyway Working Group met in M
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20 March 2014Opinion: Protect Elephants and Gorillas to Sustain Our Forests
Young Mountain Gorilla © Ian Redmond
With 21 March designated by the United Nations as the “International Day of Forests and the Tree”, Bradnee Chambers, the Executive Secretary of the U.N. Environment Programme Convention on Migratory Species, explains why he sees forest and species conservation as two sides of the same coin.
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18 March 2014Opinion: Let's get sustainable development goals right
Australian Flying Foxes © Andrea Pauly
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under negotiation within the United Nations are set to become the next major driving force for poverty eradication and development.
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17 March 2014CMS Participates in the Sargasso Sea Meeting in Bermuda for the Signing of the Sargasso Sea Conservation Declaration
David Freestone (left), Sargasso Sea Alliance and Hon. Craig Cannonier, Premier of Bermuda © F. Rilla, UNEP/CMS
Bonn, 17 March 2014 - On 11 March Governments from across the world travelled to Bermuda to sign the Hamilton Declaration on Collaboration for the Conservation of the Sargasso Sea.
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16 March 2014Opinion: Religion and Conservation Do Mix
Bird design in a church in Formia, Italy © R. Vagg UNEP/CMS
Bradnee Chambers, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals, believes wildlife conservation is a goal that religions must take on
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11 March 2014Opinion: Wildlife Tourism: A Multi-billion Dollar Industry at Risk
Wildlife Watching in Etosha National Park © N.Epler
Originally published in Deutsche Welle
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11 March 20142014/012: Consultation Draft Released –Second Draft Strategic Plan for Migratory Species 2015-2023
The Secretariat of the Convention on Migratory Species is pleased to announce the release of the second draft of the Strategic Plan for Migratory Species 2015-2023, prepared by the CMS Parties’ Int
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10 March 20142014/011: New Party to the Convention (Kyrgyzstan)
The Secretariat of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals is pleased to inform you that the Republic of Kyrgyzstan has acceded to the Convention. As of 1 May 2014
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03 March 2014Opinion: Wildlife Enriches the Planet and Those Living on It
African elephants are being poached in record numbers to satisfy the demand for ivory
Today is World Wildlife Day - a day set aside by the UN General Assembly to promote the intrinsic value of wildlife and its contribution to sustainable development and human well-being.
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03 March 2014World Wildlife Day should remind us we need a climate deal in Paris
Monarch Butterflies © Allen Montgomery USFWS
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03 March 2014Opinion: World Wildlife Day should remind us we need a climate deal in Paris
If the world’s endangered species could choose where to migrate in 2015, the chances are Paris would be high on their mind. For the French capital next year is where governments have pledged to ink a new universal agreement on climate change – one aimed at sparing the planet and its people from dangerous, unchecked global warming.
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