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Elephants Need Protecting. Lifting The Ivory Ban Is No Solution
We’re told we are in the ‘anthropocene’ era, the era of human domination. One of the features of this era is the so-called ‘sixth extinction’.
Second CMS pre-COP12: African Region is Gearing up for Manila
Participants at the pre-COP in Addis Ababa © Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority
Addis Ababa, 11 August 2017 - The CMS COP12 Regional Preparatory Workshop for Africa took place in Addis Abba and was kindly hosted by the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority
Who governs the High Seas?
Creating, coordinating, and implementing international ocean policy is a complex and time-consuming endeavor.
Egyptian bird species seen thriving in Dubai
Wildlife expert finds 19 Egyptian Nightjars at Al Qudra Lakes
Eat, prey, love: bald eagles adopt baby hawk into their nest in Canada
The hawk, which is usually prey for eagles, is in excellent health after being taken in, and now ‘thinks he’s a bald eagle’, according to one expert
Italian Government Champion Animal Migration Atlas
Ms. Laura Cerasi, CMS Fundraising & Partnerships Programme Officer and Ms. Maria Carmela Giarratano, Director General for Nature and Sea Protection, Italian Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea
On Monday, 24 July the CMS Secretariat welcomed a new Champion under the dedicated programme which encourages continued support for the work under the CMS Family. The Government of Italy pledged €1 million in support of the development of an atlas on bird migration in the African-Eurasian region over the course of three years.
Workshop in Bolivia Helps Prepare Latin American and Caribbean Region for COP12
© MMAyA, Bolivia
The CMS Secretariat, in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment and Water of Bolivia, has concluded a fruitful Regional Preparatory Workshop, which took place from 18 to 20 July in La Paz, Bolivia. The primary objective of the pre-COP workshop for Latin America and the Caribbean was to strengthen capacity and form regional alliances on the most relevant issues of COP12 to National Focal Points (NFPs) from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Protected marine areas face multiple threats
Protected marine areas (MPAs) in the country face the serious threats of pollution, dynamite and electric shock fishing and haphazard infrastructure construction for tourism.
100 Days Until UN Wildlife Conference Kicks Off in Manila
African Lion © Clara Nobbe, Whale shark © gonzaloaraujo.com/LAMAVE, Przewalski's horses © Image Broker Robert Harding, Giraffes © pixabay.com, African White-backed vulture © Andre Botha, Chimpanzee © USAID Africa Bureau (Chimpanzees in Uganda Uploaded by Elitre) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Only 100 days remain until a major global meeting on wildlife protection kicks off in Manila. Over 120 countries will gather in the Philippine capital for the 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS COP12) from 23 to 28 October 2017. The meeting will address a range of critical issues facing the world’s endangered wildlife shared across international borders.
2nd Meeting of the CMS Scientific Council Sessional Committee
CMS Scientific Council Sessional Committee - 2nd meeting in Bonn ©Aydin Bahramlouian
The Second Meeting of the Sessional Committee of the CMS Scientific Council will be held at the UN Premises in Bonn from 10 to 13 July. The agenda of the meeting will be dominated by consideration of documents in advance of the 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties, being held in Manila in October.