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Dr. Bradnee Chambers, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Environment Programme's Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, describes ahead of World Environment Day (5 June), how small island states are vulnerable to sea level rises and other effects of climate change.

The UNEP/AEWA Secretariat is pleased to announce that the UNEP Executive Director has appointed Dr Jacques Trouvilliez as the new Executive Secretary of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA). He began his new role as head of the UNEP/AEWA Secretariat on 2 June 2014.

Bonn, 28 May 2014 - Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, who led the UNEP/CMS Secretariat first as officer-in-charge and then as Executive Secretary from July 2009 until the appointment of the current incumbent, Bradnee Chambers, has been named as the Director of DELC, the Division of Environmental Law and Conventions located at UNEP HQ in Nairobi. She will take up her new responsibilities at the beginning of June.

Bonn, 23 May 2014 - A formidable coalition of NGOs and local groups is staging events at 250 locations worldwide starting in New Zealand and finishing in Hawaii on the inaugural World Fish Migration Day on Saturday, 24 May.

This year’s International Day of Biological Diversity (May 22) focuses on islands. Bradnee Chambers, Executive Secretary of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals discusses the impact of the growing problem of marine debris on islands’ wildlife and the economic and environmental consequences.

The UNEP/CMS Secretariat is pleased to announce that the deadline for the submission of National Reports to the Secretariat has been extended for a second time to 30 May 2014.

For the second year running, the Secretariats of CMS and AEWA jointly organized a benefit concert in Bonn, Germany as their contribution to the global celebration of World Migratory Bird Day. This year’s concert aimed to raise funds for the White-winged Flufftail, a Critically Endangered bird species, which is thought to have a population of less than 250 individuals remaining in the wild.

Today, the CMS Raptors MoU Coordinating Unit celebrates World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) jointly with Bird Conservation Georgia, the leading nature conservation organization in the country, through its Batumi Raptor Count (BRC) programme located at the city of Batumi in Georgia.

World Migratory Bird Day 2014 – celebrated in over 70 countries on 10-11 May – focuses on the role sustainable tourism can play in conserving one of the world’s true natural wonders: the spectacular movements of migratory birds along their flyways.

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