Wildlife Summit to Propose New Task Force to Prevent Illegal Killing of Birds
Wheatear caught in trammel net © Mindy El Bashir/Nature Conservation Egypt A new intergovernmental task force to curb the illegal killing of birds crossing one of the world’s greatest migration paths will be high on the agenda at this year’s largest wildlife summit, which takes place in Manila next month. The East Asian-Australasian Flyway spans 22 countries from the Russian Federation to Alaska in the USA in the north, through much of Eastern Asia to the Western Pacific and Australia and New Zealand in the south.