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  • 13 March 2015
    Safe Flyways: New Project to Increase Waterbird Monitoring in Central Asia

    Siberian Cranes © International Crane Foundation

    The Siberian Crane is a majestic migratory bird. In the summer, it lives and breeds in Arctic Russia before flying thousands of kilometers south to spend the winter in Iran, India or China.

    • UN Bonn
  • 12 March 2015
    Jastarnia Group 11 Makes Recommendations for the Implementation of two Harbour Porpoise Action Plans

    11th Meeting of the Jastarnia Group © H. Frisch / ASCOBANS

    At the kind invitation of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, the ASCOBANS Jastarnia Group held its 11th Meeting at the Ozeaneum in Stralsund, Germany on 10 and 11 March 2015. The Group, made up of 18 experts representing the environmental and fisheries sectors of their countries, as well as civil society and the ASCOBANS Secretariat, discussed progress in the implementation of the two action plans adopted for harbour porpoises in the wider Baltic Sea region.

    • UN Bonn
  • 11 March 2015
    2015/008: New Signatory to the UNEP/CMS Raptors MOU

    The Secretariat of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) in its capacity as Depositary of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migrator

    • UN Bonn
  • 10 March 2015
    Protect and Prosper: The Wadden Sea at the ITB Convention

    The English version of the book “The Wadden Sea”, the first book that shows the entire Wadden Sea World Heritage Site was launched at ITB in the presence of the Minister of the Environment of Schleswig Holstein, Robert Habeck. The book contains stunning aerial photography by Martin Stock and Peter de Vries, and was produced in cooperation with CWSS (from left to right: Rüdiger Strempel, Henner Wachholtz, Robert Habeck, Harald Marencic, photo CWSS).

    For the first time this year, the Wadden Sea World Heritage was represented at the world’s largest tourism convention, Berlin’s  ITB, from 4-8 March 2015. Why a tourism fair?

    • UN Bonn
  • 06 March 2015
    CMS Executive Secretary Addresses AMCEN 15

    The high-level segment of the 15th Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) opened in Cairo, Wednesday

    • UN Bonn
  • 06 March 2015
    2015/006: Report of CMS COP11 and Annexes

    The Secretariat is pleased to announce that the report of the Eleventh Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention has now been posted on the

    • UN Bonn
  • 03 March 2015
    World Wildlife Day

    Photos: Bird trapped in a net found along the Egyptian coast © Holger Schulz; shot Addax © John Newby, SCF; burning ivory; thousands of dolphins are killed illegally every year © WDC; a lion chews at a snare caught around its neck © Courtesy of Panthera.org

    Today is World Wildlife Day, chosen as it marks the anniversary of the signing of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) one of the two international treaties dedicated to the conservation of wildlife

    • UN Bonn
  • 03 March 2015
    World Wildlife Day

    Photos: Bird trapped in a net found along the Egyptian coast © Holger Schulz; shot Addax © John Newby, SCF; burning ivory; thousands of dolphins are killed illegally every year © WDC; a lion chews at a snare caught around its neck © Courtesy of Panthera.org

    Today is World Wildlife Day, chosen as it marks the anniversary of the signing of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) one of the two international treaties dedicated to the conservation of wildlife

    • UN Bonn
  • 03 March 2015
    Opinion: How Lax Legislation Is Killing the Wildlife in Europe

    Bird trapped in a net found along the Egyptian coast © Holger Schulz

    Reports of elephants and rhino being massacred for their tusks or horns due to demand in Asia often make the headlines. But illegal activities are not confined to trade in luxury items destined for markets in Asia – serious infractions of conservation law are happening in Europe too. Some countries have not fully transposed their commitments under international treaties and EU law in national legislation. Sometimes, excellent provisions contained in national laws are not effectively enforced. In other cases, such as skylarks, the number of animals taken legally are unsustainable. To prevent further declines, more realistic quotas should be set and better management measures adopted.

    • UN Bonn
  • 01 March 2015
    Opinion: War on Wildlife Crime – Time to Enlist the Ordinary Citizen

    Addax hunted by soldiers © John Newby/SCF

    With 3 March designated as World Wildlife Day, Bradnee Chambers, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, examines the problem of wildlife crime from the angle of asking what the individual citizen can do to help fight to save our living natural heritage.

    • UN Bonn