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Newsletter 48, May 2025
‘Design a Wildly Wonderful Wetland Animal’ Competition
We are sharing this opportunity from Eversheds Sutherland, which supports the WLI Small Grants. Please note this competition is open to applications from Jordan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom only. Deadline 2 May! Win Prizes and Promote Environmental Stewardship! In celebration of World Wetlands Day, Eversheds Sutherland, a global law firm, has partnered with…
Wetlands International Afrique
Monitoring the biodiversity of mangrove ecosystems in the Saloum delta. Mobilising, inspiring and strengthening stakeholders: when the WIACO approach works! How can the impact of restoration on mangrove biodiversity be measured? How can we mobilise and train the players responsible for addressing this issue, which is particularly acute in the current context? Wetlands International Afrique…
Urdaibai Bird Center: Reunion with an old friend – the nightjar B90538
Our volunteers will not forget the nocturnal banding session in Ereño on August 19, 2024. When they returned to the nets, they were reunited with an old friend… the nightjar B90538 was back in its territory. This specimen had been banded for the first time in 2023 as a juvenile. The banding team not only…
Urdaibai Bird Center Volunteer Program, summer 2024
From June to September, 25 volunteers participated in the Urdaibai Bird Center’s annual volunteer program. The program is aimed at training people in areas related to the environment such as research, dissemination, land management, and environmental education. It gives volunteers practical experience of everyday activities in the Urdaibai Bird Center. They record daily bird sightings,…
Urdaibai Bird Center: Diversity brightens our lives
At the Urdaibai Bird Center we love diversity. The more diversity there is, the better for all. People of all ages and nationalities come to the Urdaibai Bird Center and lately we have noticed that we have more and more visitors from associations such as Gorabide, Apnabi, Gaude or Red Cross. It is a pleasure…
Nigerian Conservation Foundation
Migratory birds are species that travel from one region to another, often covering thousands of miles, to exploits seasonal food sources, breeding grounds and favourable climates. This remarkable phenomenon is a testament to their adaptability and the intricate balance of global ecosystems. The 2024 World Migratory Bird Day was celebrated on Wednesday 15th May 2024…
The Lake Grand-Lieu Centre: Creation of an educational toolkit
In collaboration with the managers of the national nature reserve (SNPN), we have developed an educational kit entitled ‘Manage your nature reserve’, to work with secondary schools in the region that are far from the Lake Grand-Lieu and cannot visit the centre. The kit will be test in 2025. It is aimed at secondary school…
The Lake Grand-Lieu Centre: Welcoming a new audience
For 10 years, we have been welcoming schools and the general public. In view of the urgent need to tackle climate change and the biodiversity crisis, since 2024 our mission has been to raise awareness among a new audience: public decision-makers (elected representatives) and private decision-makers (companies). Following a survey of the area and a…
International Wadden Sea School
New Educational Resource: Bird Profiles for Guided Tours The Wadden Sea, spanning the North Sea coasts of Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, serves as a vital resting place for over ten million migratory birds along the East Atlantic flyway. To enhance guided tours and educational efforts, the International Wadden Sea School (IWSS) has released a…
World Migratory Bird Day resources
World Migratory Bird Day in May and October this year is about how people can make their communities, rural or urban, welcoming to migratory birds. The official website has a description of the theme and purpose, and will have posters for our flyway in May. The general poster is here.
Newsletter 47, April 2024
Migratory bird films
Roelof Heringa shares some of the public engagement work being done around the work via films.
Open meetings of MBP on Zoom this year
Capacity development 2024 – 2030 15 May 2024 08.00 – 10.00 UTC A two-hour meeting dedicated to understanding how we should build or share capacity. Identifying the needs and supplies of resources in the network, and how we can share them, online or in-person. Register in advance for the Zoom call. The questions we will look…
MBP core group
Workshop report: International Women’s Day workshop We held an online workshop on International Women’s Day. This is an output from the 2022 capacity building meeting in Saloum where participants asked: how do we empower young women when they go out to educate and inform their communities? Alex Hughes and Khouloud Belhadj facilitated, and 33 people…
NCF – NIGERIA – World Wetlands Day 2024
Introduction: Wetlands are dynamic aquatic ecosystems found all over the world. It’s an area of land that is saturated with water either permanently or seasonally. It can be freshwater, brackish, or saline. World Wetlands Day (WWD) helps create awareness about the beneficial impact of wetlands on Mother Nature. WWD is commemorated every year on February…
Maison du Lac de Grand-Lieu – France
World Wetlands Day This year we opened the centre to the general public at the beginning of February to celebrate World Wetlands Day. On the weekend of 3 and 4 February, visits to Lake Grand- Lieu Centre were free and we welcomed 628 visitors. As we do every year, we coordinated activities to raise awareness…
Wadden Sea WWF – Germany
The East Atlantic Flyway of Coastal BirdsLess than a year after the East Atlantic Flyway Week in April 2023 an exciting book about 50 years of research and conservation successes along this migration route was published.More details about this book published in German and English.
WWT Welney Wetland Centre – UK
Black-tailed godwit arrivals at WWT Welney after spring migration Spring migration is an exciting time of year, but when communities come together to follow individual birds from a specific species that excitement grows even more. The anticipation of welcoming known birds and hearing of them passing through important wetland sites is thrilling.In February the first…
Zwin Natuur Park – Belgium
Large number of wintering waterbirds at the Zwin nature reserveMany waterbirds were attracted to the Zwin nature reserve during the winter of 2023-2024. The combined maximum totals of geese, ducks and waders that were counted in the period October – March exceeded 20.000 birds. Various species peaked at different times during this period, so not…
Register: Visitor Centres Study Tour in Belgium & Netherlands
Eurosite’s Working Group on Nature and Recreation is hosting a Visitor Centers Study Tour in the Netherlands and Belgium. 28-30 May 2024 Registration now open Oisterwijk In and around visitor centres and entrances to nature in Holland and Flanders, we will discuss several issues of visitor management and keeping a balance between nature and recreation.…
EOVA – Portugal – Godwit Flyway
Resume LIFE-project number 101113618 LIFE22-NAT-DE-LIFE Godwit Flyway 1st July 2023 – 31 Oct 2030 Coordinator: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie und Klimaschutz, GER Beneficiary: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL; Universidade de Aveiro, PT; Companhia das Lezirias, PT; Natur- und Umweltschutzvereinigung Dümmer, GER and Associated Partner: Ministry of Environment, Department of Parks and Wildlife Management, Gambia Summary LIFE…
Newsletter 46, July 2023
A walk through the encañizadas of the Salinas y Arenales de San Pedro del Pinatar regional park
Las Encañizadas is a unique corner of the Murcian coastline where you can find tranquillity and wild nature. To reach this place we recommend you to cycle about 4 km along the cycle path that starts next to the old Quintín mill. When you pass the second mill, the Calcetera, the east wind will bring…
Reopening of the Lake Grand-Lieu Centre!
Back to MBP homepage The Lake Grand-Lieu Centre reopened its doors to the public on Saturday 27 May 2023, after a 5-month period of works and closure! Visitors were able to discover the new exhibitions in the visitor centre and the Pavilion, and they took advantage of the 17th National Nature Festival to participate to…
Sounding Wild – Virtual Wadden Sea Experience
For three days in June/July the Wadden Sea Visitor Centre Nationalpark-Haus Husum hosted the “Sounding Wild Immersive Experience” presented by Axel and Ario Drioli. More than 100 visitors took a dive and immersed into the Virtual Reality impressions, videos, pictures and wildlife sounds previously recorded in the Wadden Sea. The Sounding Wild Immersive Experience is…
From polder to pole, the extraordinary journey of the barnacle goose
The picture of winter in Oostvaardersplassen is dominated by some 40,000 barnacle geese. The black and white geese are quite striking on the green grasslands, and their plumage hints at a very different landscape. Having eaten their fill, they will soon leave for the rocky cliffs of Nova Zembla and the Russian tundra. Why do…
Giving our visitors an ever improved experience at Urdaibai Bird Center
We have some great new additions to the exhibition at the Urdaibai Bird Center. The Sounds of the Seasons is a sensory experience of the marsh which enhances access for people. Even if you are visiting Urdaibai Bird Center in spring or summer you can now experience the sounds of winter in our new audiosphere.…
Project Godwit bird spotted in Senegal and Spain
Our annual meeting 2019 included a presentation about Project Godwit, a head-starting programme in eastern England, which included local CEPA. One of the godwits hatched there in 2018, has been spotted in Spain and Senegal. The first sighting outside where it was hatched was Isla Mayor, Veta la Palma, Spain in May 2022, and in…
Vacancy: European Goose Management Platform Coordinator
You or your team may be interested in this job, announced by the Africa Eurasia migratory Waterbird Agreement (AWEA). Their European Goose Management Platform is recruiting a Coordinator. Apply before 31 August 2023 on this link.
News from the core group
World Migratory Bird Day: Francophone Ibrahim Hama was as ever a powerhouse for MBP Africa, arranging and hosting a French-language video conference for young people around World Migratory Bird Day. The challenges of public protest limited which schools could participate in Senegal, but he maintains good relations with the schools there for ongoing projects. Ecole…
Newsletter 45, February 2023
News from the MBP Core Group (Connor Walsh)
Back to MBP homepage Work plan for 2023 and your input Late last year we prepared our workplan for 2022/23. We developed this at the Annual Meeting in Saloum, and in a follow-up online meeting. We invite you to look through it, and engage with the network on any of the topics where you can…
EVOA – Portugal (Sandra Paiva)
Back to MBP homepage MBP Annual Meeting – 2 – 5th October at EVOA (Portugal) Reserve the Date! The Tagus Estuary Natural Reserve has a lot to offer to our migratory water birds, especially during migratory passages. Let’s witness that phenomenon with 200,000 birds passing through this stopover, while we meet, share and prepare our…
AEWA/ CMS (Florian Keil)
Back to MBP homepage World Migratory Bird Day 2023 Please find here more information about the next year’s World Migratory Bird Day campaign which will focus on the topic of water and its importance for migratory birds.
Grepom/Birdlife Morocco – Morocco (Lamiae El Briech)
Back to MBP homepage Oualidia Ecological Information Centre The Ecological Information Centre of Oualidia continues to organise its awareness-raising activities on migratory birds, Moroccan wetlands, their heritage and their socio-economic importance. During this year 2022, the centre welcomed more than 1100 visitors: pupils, including 17 schools with their teachers, parents’ organisations, students in addition to…
La maison du Lac de Grand-Lieu – France (Audrey Cadou)
Back to MBP homepage A warm and dry summer! During the last summer, we experienced drought, fires and very high temperatures sometimes higher than 40°C! In spite of the summer heat we saw many beautiful birds on the lake: Squacco Heron, Eurasian Spoonbills, Eurasian Black-winged Stilts, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Avocet, Green Sandpiper, Common Snipe, Black-crowned…
Besøkssenter Våtmark Nordre Øyeren – Norway (Henning Flørenes)
Back to MBP homepage Wetland trips into Nordre Øyeren nature reserve for 7th graders This fall we have had nearly 300 7th graders out in our local nature reserve participating in our program with focus on migratory birds and biodiversity in the wetlands. The students got to borrow binoculars during the excursion to spot the…
Zwin Natuur Park – Belgium (Wouter Faveyts)
Back to MBP homepage Successful bird ringing campaign in the Zwin Nature Park in the autumn of 2022 For the fourth year in a row, the bird ring station in the Zwin Nature Park was manned by bird ringers in autumn. This continuous effort of scientific ring work was done in collaboration with our partner…
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