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Opinion: Natural World Heritage Sites – Sharing the Future
Migratory birds in the Wadden Sea © Jan van der Kam/CWSS
The 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee is meeting in Bonn, a stone’s throw from the headquarters of the Convention on Migratory Species and several of its associated agreements. Jacques Trouvilliez, Executive Secretary of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA), and Rüdiger Strempel, Secretary of the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat, examine the importance of those sites inscribed in the list for their natural rather than cultural qualities.
World Heritage Natural Sites Threatened by Illegal Wildlife Trade
Bradnee Chambers, Executive Secretary CMS © German Commission for UNESCO/Kolja Matzke
Bradnee Chambers, Executive Secretariat of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) was featured as a panelist during a side event of the 39th Session of the World Heritage Commission currently underway in Bonn, Germany.
In Memory of Peter Pueschel
Peter Pueschel
it was with deep regret and great sadness that the CMS Secretariat team heard about the sudden death of Peter Pueschel, Director for International Environmental Agreements at the International Fund for Animal Welfare
World Heritage Committee Meets in Bonn
Wadden Sea
The 39th session of the Word Heritage Committee (WHC) opened in Bonn on Sunday. The WHC is one of the partners of CMS in the Biodiversity Liaison Group, an umbrella organization for seven international Conventions and treaties.
Kazakh Saiga Die-Off - RFE/RL Interview with Aline Kühl-Stenzel
Around 40 percent of the critically endangered Saiga antelope have died in Kazakhstan in the last couple of months.
AEWA Turns Twenty!
20th Anniversary of AEWA - Making Flyway Conservation Happen
Making Flyway Conservation Happen - Twenty Years of International Waterbird Conservation in Action
UN-Treaty on Migratory Waterbirds Marks its 20th Anniversary
Bonn, 16 June 2015 –Today marks the 20th anniversary of theAgreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA).
AEWA Turns Twenty!
20th Anniversary of AEWA - Making Flyway Conservation Happen
The 16th June 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the culmination of the inter-governmental negotiations that led to the adoption of AEWA – the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds – an international treaty dedicated to conserving species such as cranes, storks, ducks and shorebirds that regularly travel along flyways that span continents and oceans.
Polar bears 'have started eating dolphins due to climate change'
Scientists observe polar bears in Arctic eating dolphins for the first time ever, blaming reduction of sea ice for broadening animals' diet
WMBD Video Competition Results
The Secretariats of CMS and AEWA are marking this year’s World Environment Day (WED), the annual awareness-raising campaign led by UNEP, by announcing the winners of the first-ever World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) video competition.