Kenya’s ivory burn will help end demand worldwide by making people ashamed to buy and own ivory

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Oryx being released at Ouadi Rimé Achim Reserve © Ayman Khalil

Roseline Beudels-Jamar de Bolsée , the CMS Scientific Councillor from Belgium, who has been involved from the very beginning in the Convention’s efforts to conserve Sahelo-Saharan antelopes, has informed the Secretariat of some long overdue positive developments concerning the Scimitar-horned Oryx. Twenty-five animals have just been shipped from Abu Dhabi to Chad meaning that after an absence of a quarter of a century, Oryx are back on Chadian soil.

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Bonn, 27 April 2016 - A photo exhibition featuring great apes will open today at the Zoological Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn.

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The Secretariat of the Convention on Migratory Species is pleased to announce the release of the first draft of the Indicator Factsheets for the Strategic Plan for Migratory Species 2015-2023.

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Chorale Lirica San Rocco from Bologna, Italy © Sergey Dereliev, www.dereliev-photography.com

For the fourth consecutive year the operatic choir, Chorale Lirica San Rocco from Bologna, Italy will be giving a benefit concert in Bonn, as part of the annual celebration of World Migratory Bird Day. The proceeds from the concert will be donated to a project related to bird conservation. The concert entitled “Flight through a Decade” includes a programme of ten arias taken from major works each set in a different country, mirroring the various States that birds pass through on their annual migration.

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