Maurice Strong (right) © UNEP

Maurice Strong, founding Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), has passed away at the age of 86.

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The 45th Meeting of the CMS Standing Committee will take place from Wednesday, 9 November to Thursday, 10 November 2016 at the UNEP/CMS Secretariat premises, Platz der Vereinten Nationen

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Redstart © Ricardo Gomez Calmaestra

The Second Meeting of the African-Eurasian Migratory Landbirds Working Group is taking place from 25 to 27 November 2015 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

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Trainees practice entanglement response on the water using boats and ropes to simulate entangled whales.

Bonn/Abu Dhabi, 19 November 2015 - In the Indian Ocean (including its adjacent seas and gulfs) the Convention on Migratory Species’

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Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) © Mathias Putze, Taiga Bean Goose (Anser fabilis fabilis) © Jari Peltomäki, www.jaripeltomaki.com, Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) © Wim Werrelman, www.wimpics.com, Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata) © Maurice Benmergui

22 resolutions, including action plans for highly threatened seabirds and guidelines for the sustainable use of waterbirds, were adopted at the Sixth Meeting of Parties (MOP6) to the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA), administered by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which concluded on Saturday at the United Nations Campus in Bonn.

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The Government of Germany receives the Migratory Species Champions Award © IISD

After its launch at the CMS Conference of the Parties in November 2014, the second chapter of the Migratory Species Champion Programme was opened yesterday in Bonn in the margins of the first day of the 6th Meeting of the Parties to African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement (AEWA).

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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

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The first ASCOBANS Outreach and Education Award

Do you know someone, an individual or institution, having an outstanding role in awareness-raising or education relating to whales, dolphins and porpoises in the ASCOBANS Area? If so, please consid

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Lesser Flamingos (Phoeniconaias minor) © Mark D. Anderson

Waterbird populations across the African-Eurasian flyway are on a downward trend, with declining populations outstripping growing ones by almost 50 per cent, shows the latest conservation status report compiled for the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) – an inter-governmental treaty administered by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

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Saiga mother with calf, Stepnoi Reserve, Russia © E. Polonskiy Самка сайгака с детенышем, Степной заповедник, Россия © E. Полонский

Saiga Range Countries and Experts Convene in Tashkent Following Saiga Mass Mortality Event

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Participants at the Symposium on the American Eel

From 23-25 October 2015, the Sargasso Sea Commission, together with the Marine & Environmental Law Institute of Dalhousie University, Ocean Tracking Network, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Center for Oceans and Coastal Law at the University of Maine School of Law, Ocean and Coastal Law Journal, and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute sponsored an interactive symposium in Portland, Maine on conservation of the American eel.

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Harbour porpoise near fishing net © Boris Culik, F3

Bonn – On 30 October 2015, the Executive Secretary of ASCOBANS, on behalf of the Agreement’s ten Parties, transmitted to the European Commission the outcomes of a one-year process to develop a common position of ASCOBANS Parties relating to the requirements of legislation to address monitoring and mitigation of small cetacean bycatch.

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