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  • 17 September 2018
    UN-Cinema: CMS Partners in Film Screening at Deutsche Welle

    The Last Animals - A Film by Kate Brooks © Kate Brooks

    UN Cinema screened the award-winning documentary “The Last Animals” with CMS, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Deutsche Welle as partners. The German UN Association NRW-Chapter (DGVN NRW) and the United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC), invited an interested audience to the event. It was hosted by Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle on 13 September in Bonn, Germany.

    • UN Bonn
  • 11 September 2018
    New Study: Half the World’s Raptor Populations Are in Decline

    Imperial Eagles © www.raptorimages.hu

    A multi-authored scientific paper on the state of the world’s birds of prey and owls was published last week in Biological Conservation and is now freely available online. According to the research, 18% percent of raptors are threatened with extinction and 52% of raptors have declining global populations.

    • UN Bonn
  • 10 September 2018
    Timor-Leste Becomes 27th Signatory to Dugong MOU

    Dugong © Mandy Etipson

    Timor-Leste has confirmed its support towards the protection of dugongs and their vital seagrass habitats by becoming the 27th Signatory to the CMS Dugong MOU. The Secretary of State for the Environment, H.E. Demétrio do Amaral de Carvalho signed the MOU earlier today at a signing ceremony in Dili, Timor-Leste.

    • UN Bonn
  • 07 September 2018
    First Arabian Peninsula Waterbird Monitoring Strategy Planned at Workshop in UAE

    Sociable Lapwing © Maxim Koshkin

    International experts met in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, to develop a strategy for the Arabian Peninsula to monitor the region’s waterbirds and their threatened wetland habitats. The regional strategy aims to build capacity to monitor coastal waterbirds and important wetland sites in all countries of the Arabian Peninsula.

    • UN Bonn
  • 06 September 2018
    CMS Becomes Member of UN-Oceans

    Sperm whales - mother and calf © Gabriel Barathieu - http://www.flickr.com/photos/barathieu/7277953560/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24212362

    CMS has become a member of UN-Oceans as BBNJ meetings start at UN Headquarters in New York this week. The new membership became official just before the start of the First Session of the Intergovernmental Conference on an International Legally Binding Instrument under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ).

    • UN Bonn
  • 03 September 2018
    Great Boost for Conservation of Grassland Birds and Flyways in the Americas

    Male Bobolink © Andrea Westmoreland from DeLand, United States (Bobolink at Lake Woodruff) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

    The Second Meeting of Signatories (MOS2) of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the Conservation of Southern South American Migratory Grassland Bird Species and their Habitats took place from 24 to 25 July 2018 in the city of Florianópolis, at the kind invitation of the Government of Brazil. The MOU’s Action Plan was updated until the year 2023 and specific objectives were developed for the protection and sustainable management of grasslands which are of importance to migratory birds and the ecosystem services they provide.

    • UN Bonn