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12-year-old genius builds robot that can identify microplastics on the ocean floor
Anna Du, a seventh grader from Massachusetts, has devised a remote-operated v
Five countries hold 70% of world's last wildernesses, map reveals
Drei Kartelle beherrschen den illegalen Elfenbeinhandel
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CMS Standing Committee Paves Way for New Compliance Mechanism
© Aydin Bahramlouian
At its 48th Session, held 23-24 October, at the UN Premises in Bonn, Germany, the CMS Standing Committee, meeting for the first time in the 2018-2020 triennium took on the legacy of the Twelfth Conference of the Parties (COP12), paving the way for an important period for the Convention. The launch of the CMS Review Mechanism as well as the National Legislation Programme were highlights of the meeting.
Pascal Canfin : «Plus on détruit la nature, plus ça va nous coûter cher»
INTERVIEW - Le directeur général du WWF-France, qui lutte notamment contre
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.
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
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.
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.
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.