Migratory Wildlife Network

Wild Migration Civil Society Dialogue
In November 2011 the Wild Migration (as the Migratory Wildlife Network) attended CMS CoP10 in Bergen Norway where, in partnership with the Friends of CMS, we hosted the first CMS Civil Society Dialogue session with over 35 NGOs. The session agreed that the Dialogue should continue and be used to build greater understanding and coordination of related work in the lead up to CMS CoP11.

In 2014, Wild Migration released A Natural Affiliation, after an extensive review of the CMS NGO community and it's engagement with CMS.

Meeting note from the 1st Civil Society Dialogue

Migratory Wildlife Network Advisory Group
The Migratory Wildlife Network Advisory Group will be established in 2016, comprising of one (or more) NGO representatives from each of the 28 CMS agreements as well as the CBD Alliance (NGOs focusing on CBD), World Wetlands Network (NGOs focusing on Ramsar) and the Species Survival Network (NGOs focusing on CITES). This Advisory Group will seek to better coordinate the work of the NGO community about related work.

Communiqués from the Network Advisory Group will be circulated to Network Members in the regular Network Digests.

Becoming a Migratory Wildlife Network Member
Becoming a Network Member is easy, and there is there is no financial burden.

Members of the Migratory Wildlife Network work loosely together to advance insitu conservation and protection for migratory species and their habitats and to increase coordination on species work across the biodiversity cluster of Multilateral Environment Agreements (MEAs), as well as through the United Nations Environment Programme Major Groups Process. The Migratory Wildlife Network pays specific attention to progressing policy and conservation through the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS).

The Migratory Wildlife Network Membership is growing every day. Already there are Network members in American Samoa, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Columbia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Fiji, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Scotland, Senegal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, The Gambia, Tonga, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA. Each of these individual Members are experts in their field and engaged in wildlife conservation work for many important and influential organizations around the world.

As a Network Member you receive our regular Migratory Wildlife Network Digest with reports of MEA business, collaboration with a number of wildlife and habitat coalitions and alliances, and our communications with various MEA Secretariats.

You also have full access to the Network Member Area of www.wildmigration.org that includes helpful member tools:

• Regular news of CMS and CMS agreement meetings and events, and an archive search of all this news, making it quick and easy to recall past meetings and outcomes;
• A fully searchable database of all CMS Resolutions and Recommendations;
• A fully searchable database of all the CMS Appendix listed species, including their Appendix I or II status, the full list of Range States and their CMS Party status;
• A rolling meeting calendar that relates specifically to wildlife process, and includes key deadline schedules for CMS;
• Network analysis of the CMS Conference of the Parties (CMS CoP) agenda and all documents being formally presented;
• Network analysis on Government positions for specific wildlife meetings.

To access this information you simply login using the email address through which you have registered.

Become a Migratory Wildlife Network Member