Asia Members

WLI Asia-Oceania Inventory Survey

By Connor Walsh / 17th June 2026

The WLI Asia-Oceania Secretariat is taking a step to update the first edition of Wetland Centers in Asia. As the network expanded its region from Aisa to Asia and Oceania, the udpated inventory will assist in promoting wetland centers in Asia-Oceania as well as providing more information on wetland centers and organizations in the region.…

WLI Asia-Oceania members, contribute to your book!

By Connor Walsh / 20th August 2025

The WLI Asia-Oceania Secretariat at Ramsar Regional Centre – East Asia (RRC-EA), would like to take a step towards updating the wetland center inventory survey ‘Wetland Centers in Asia and Oceania’. In 2018, we published the first edition of Wetland Centers in Asia that includes an inventory of 43 wetland centers/organizations from 13 countries in Asia.…

1st WLI Asia-Oceania Conference report

By Connor Walsh / 5th February 2025

You can now download the report on the 1st WLI Asia-Oceania Conference! Held in Colombo in June 2024, it was organized in two (2) parts: WLI Asia-Oceania Learning Session and the 10th Anniversary event of Diyasaru Park. The conference received more than 110 participants from 14 countries representing wetland education centers, national and local government…

First Birds and Schools for East Asian-Australasian Flyway links Incheon, Ro Korea and Hong Kong

By Connor Walsh / 3rd January 2023

Birds and Schools is an interactive and international programme for exchange between schools from different parts of the world, and to share what the students have done or learned about the migratory birds and wetlands they visited. WLI initiated the programme in the East Atlantic Flyway. In 2022, for the first time, the programme was…

WLI Asia-Oceania announced!

By Connor Walsh / 27th July 2022

At the 8th WLI Asia Conference this week, the network formally joined with WLI members in the Pacific region to create WLI Asia-Oceania. Led by the team at the Ramsar Regional Centre – East Asia (RRC-EA), WLI Asia is one of the most active regional networks within WLI. Joining forces with them not only reinvigorates…

Register for 8th WLI Asia Conference Part 2!

By Connor Walsh / 24th May 2022

We are pleased to inform you that registration for the 8th WLI-Asia Conference is now open. WLI Asia members, please register by 15 June 2022 (Wednesday) through the link here. Should you have any questions regarding the conference, please feel free to contact the organisers at WLI Asia. ★8th WLI-Asia Conference★ Date: 26-29 July 2022…

Extended: Call for proposals for WLI-Asia Fund 2022

By Connor Walsh / 1st December 2021

The call for proposals for WLI-Asia Fund 2022 is now open. The fund aims to support WLI-Asia members for development of CEPA activities, wetland management and monitoring, and Ramsar Site designation. The submission deadline is 27 December. Learn more and download the application pack and submit your application by email to wliasia.grant@gmail.com.

Youth Think Tank Competition for the EAA Flyway

By Connor Walsh / 1st November 2021

Here’s a great opportunity for young wetland conservationists in the East Atlantic Flyway. The EAAFP is organising a Youth Think Tank Competition; to help potential participants with their application, they are running a workshop on 6 & 7 November, register by 2 November. The Competition aims to motivate young people in the EAA Flyway who…

9th Asia Wetland Symposium, June 2021

By Chris Rostron / 6th April 2021

World Wetlands Day 2018 at Hong Kong Wetland Park

By Chris Rostron / 27th February 2018

Hong Kong Wetland Park celebrates World Wetlands Day 2018 To echo with the theme“Wetlands for a Sustainable Urban Future”, Hong Kong Wetland Park (HKWP) organised a series of fun-filled activities to celebrate World Wetlands Day (WWD) 2018. The activities included the winter signature event Bird Watching Festival, public lectures, workshops, bird watching guided tours, bird…