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  • 30 October 2018
    Pascal Canfin : «Plus on détruit la nature, plus ça va nous coûter cher»

    INTERVIEW - Le directeur général du WWF-France, qui lutte notamment contre

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  • 23 October 2018
    Think Like a Bird – Interview with Stephen Garnett

    Stephen Garnett, Joint CMS COP Appointed Councillor for Birds © Christie Burley

    Stephen Garnett is an environmental scientist, who has been studying Australian birds since 1974. Stephen is also the Joint COP Appointed Councillor for Birds. He is currently on sabbatical at the CMS Secretariat and Christie Burley, an intern of the Joint CMS and AEWA Communications Unit, has taken the opportunity to interview Stephen on his recent paper published in Nature Sustainability and the work he is currently doing for CMS.

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  • 16 October 2018
    Benefit Concert for Migratory Birds in Bologna

    Corale Lirica San Rocco giving a concert at Palazzo Pepoli in Bologna

    Bonn, 13 October 2018 - For the sixth consecutive year, the operatic choir Lirica San Rocco of the Lyrical Cultural Club from Bologna, Italy gave a ben

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  • 11 October 2018
    World Migratory Bird Day: New Report Shows Upward Trend for Migratory Waterbirds

    Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) © Tomas Aarvak; Long-tailed Ducks (Clangula hyemalis) © Hugh Harrop; Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) © Sergey Dereliev, www.dereliev-photography.org; Social Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius) © Maxim Koshkin

    Bucking a major general trend, the overall status of waterbird populations listed on the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) has slightly improved over the last ten years, says a new report. The findings are being released ahead of World Migratory Bird Day, an annual, UN-backed global awareness-raising and environmental education campaign focused on migratory birds and the need for international cooperation to conserve them.

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  • 10 October 2018
    Sooty Falcon Film Screening to Celebrate WMBD 2018

    Sooty Falcon (adult) at nest. Copyright by INTEWO | World Habitat Society GmbH

    An award-winning documentary entitled The Migrant - Sooty Falcons in Oman was screened last evening at the Manarat Al Saadiyat cultural centre in Abu Dhabi to mark World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) 2018. Produced by an Omani-German team, the film documents efforts to study and conserve this long-range migratory bird. The Sooty Falcon (Falco concolor) is an elegant, medium-sized bird of prey. It breeds on islands and coastal or desert cliffs, primarily in the Middle and Near East regions and flies south to wintering areas on Madagascar and the south-eastern littoral zone of the African continent.

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