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Wild Migration commends AEWA on the agreement's 20th anniversary

16th June 2015

White stork. Photographer: Frank VassenAEWA celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) - 16th June 2015. The treaty, which is based in Bonn, Germany, was signed 16 June 1995 in The Hague, the Netherlands.

AEWA Executive Secretary Jacques Trouvilliez said: “From the beginning, the focus of AEWA has been on both endangered species and sustainable use. Through AEWA, the international community has built a powerful and flexible tool which allows countries to work together to conserve migratory waterbirds along their flyways.”

Wild Migration joins this celebration by commending AEWA for its progressive and cooperative style of working with and respecting the contributions of civil society.

Migratory birds often travel long distances across flyways that span countries and entire continents from their breeding to their wintering grounds. However, pressures resulting from a growing human population, urbanization, pollution and unsustainable use are causing the loss of species and their habitats. Climate change is increasingly affecting migration routes, causing a shift in range and in the timing and changing habitats. “Cooperation among all the countries is needed to tackle the many challenges faced by the birds” says Jacques Trouvilliez, adding “Efforts to protect the White Stork in Europe are in vain, if we do not act for the species and its habitat with the same spirit along the birds’ entire migration route, which stretches across Africa”.

The annual World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) is a notable achievement in the history of the Agreement. Celebrated on the second weekend each May, WMBD has reached out to an increasing number of conservation networks and interested people across the globe inviting them to stage activities to raise awareness about a central theme related to migratory birds each year.

Later this year, governments and the international conservation community will meet in Bonn, Germany, from 9 to 14 November, to set the course for the future of migratory waterbird conservation along the African-Eurasian Flyway. Under the theme “Making Flyway Conservation Happen” the 6th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to AEWA, will include the launch of the Sixth Conservation Status Report of Migratory Waterbirds, which will reveal key conservation successes and challenges ahead for the UN treaty. New action plans will be presented for the Grey-crowned Crane, the Taiga Bean Goose, the Long-tailed Duck and the Eurasian Curlew.

More information is available through the AEWA website.

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