Wild Migration: Building capacity for conservation of migratory wildlife

Wild Migration Projects

Wild Migration Projects is our programme to build the capacity of wildlife scientists, wildlife policy experts and non-governmental organisations in developing regions to utilise international processes for migratory and transboundary wildlife conservation.

Endangered sea lions (Neophoca cinerea) are threatened by proposals to explore for oil and gas in their feeding grounds off the west coast of Kangaroo Island

African elephant (Loxodonta africana) populations have become extremely threatened, with an estimated 90 percent of their range now destroyed.

The passages between the many islands of the Solomon and Bismarck Seas are important migratory species corridors, yet noise, marine pollution and destructive fishing by distant water industrial fishing fleets are uncontrolled.

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One third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century through climate change

21st May 2013

Research led by Dr Rachel Warren from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA has looked at 50,000 globally widespread and common species and found that more than one half of the plants and one third of the animals will lose more than half of their climatic range by 2080 if nothing is done to reduce the amount of global warming and slow it down.

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New CAFF Arctic Biodiversity Assessment Helps CMS Conserve Migratory Species

16th May 2013

The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council has published the “Arctic Biodiversity Assessment (ABA),” a report on the status and trends of Arctic biodiversity.

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CITES: urgent action needed to protect elephants in the Dzanga-Sanga National Park from armed groups

9th May 2013

The Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), John E. Scanlon, expressed his grave concern over the recent reports of the deteriorating situation in the Central African Republic. Information suggests that armed groups have entered and may have started to massacre forest elephants in a World Heritage Site located in the south-western corner of the country bordering Cameroon and the Republic of Congo.

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