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  • 31 January 2017
    Wetlands for Disaster Risk Reduction

    © Pixabay.com

    Today is ‘World Wetlands Day,’ a global annual celebration of the vital socio-environmental role of wetlands and the anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands (1971) in the Iranian city of Ramsar. This convention, more commonly known as the Ramsar Convention, is a central partner of CMS and a fellow member of the Biodiversity Liaison Group. It has 169 Contracting Parties and covers over 2,200 wetland sites (with a combined area of more than 2.1 million square kilometres).

    • UN Bonn
  • 27 January 2017
    25 Years ASCOBANS: Saving the Harbour Porpoise in the Baltic Sea

    Harbour porpoises © Olaf Kleinwegen / GSM

    From the early days of the Agreement, one population caused scientists, conservationists and governments special concern: the Baltic Harbour Porpoise.

    The preamble to the Agreement text negotiated in the early 1990s already makes it clear: “Aware that the population of harbour porpoises of the Baltic Sea has drastically decreased,” and “Concerned about the status of small cetaceans in the Baltic and North Seas”. We have thus known for a long time that harbour porpoises in the Baltic Sea are in trouble. Twenty-five years later the problem is not solved yet. But we have come a long way. And the porpoises are still around!

    • UN Bonn
  • 27 January 2017
    CMS Hosts Klaus Töpfer Fellows at UN Premises in Bonn

    Klaus Töpfer Fellowship Scholars and Staff of the CMS Family © Aydin Bahramlouian, UNEP/CMS

    CMS Deputy Executive Secretary, Bert Lenten welcomed a group of 19 scholars and one supervisor from the Klaus Töpfer Fellowship Programme, who visited Langer Eugen (“Tall Eugene”), the building that houses the Secretariats of the Bonn-based CMS Family.

    • UN Bonn
  • 24 January 2017
    25 Years ASCOBANS: The Birth of the Agreement

    White-sided Dolphins © Luca Lamoni

    This year marks the 25th anniversary of the opening for signature of the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas (ASCOBANS) in New York on 17 March 1992. Over the past 25 years, ASCOBANS has provided the framework for international cooperation for the protection of small cetaceans – whales, dolphins and porpoises – in northern and western European waters. But getting the Agreement ready took quite some effort.

    • UN Bonn
  • 20 January 2017
    25 Years ASCOBANS: The Birth of the Agreement

    White-sided Dolphins © Luca Lamoni

    This year marks the 25th anniversary of the opening for signature of the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas (ASCOBANS) in New York on 17 March 1992. Over the past 25 years, ASCOBANS has provided the framework for international cooperation for the protection of small cetaceans – whales, dolphins and porpoises – in northern and western European waters. But getting the Agreement ready took quite some effort.

    • UN Bonn
  • 18 January 2017
    Meetings in Singapore Set up the Avian Agenda for the East Asian-Australasian Flyway

    participants in the AMBI meeting

    Two important avian meetings took place back to back in Singapore early in 2017: the first was a meeting of the Arctic Migratory Birds Initiative (AMBI), a group that operates under the Arctic Council’s CAFF (Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna); the second was the 9th Meeting of Partners to the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership

    • UN Bonn
  • 16 January 2017
    2017/001: Reminder - 2nd Consultation Phase for CMS Family Guidelines on Environmental Impact Assessments for Marine Noise-generating Activities

    Following the consultations that took place between April and July 2016 on the first draft of the CMS Family Guidelines on Environmental Impact Assessments for Marine Noise-generating Activities (s

    • UN Bonn
  • 11 January 2017
    In Memoriam - Wolfgang E. Burhenne

    Wolfgang E. Burhenne © IISD

    Bonn, 11 January 2017 - The CMS Secretariat is sad to have to announce, that Dr. Wolfgang E.

    • UN Bonn