Every year, the Mediterranean Waterbirds Network (MWN) meetings https://www.medwaterbirds.net/  bring together the IWC (International Waterbirds Census) national coordinators from several mediterranean countries. During these meetings, […]

The 9th European Goose Management Platform (EGMP) meeting concluded today in Tromso, Norway. The EGMP is pioneering the adaptive management of European waterbird populations under […]

Great news! In a tense voting session on 27 February 2024, the European Parliament supported the European Union’s Nature Restoration Law. This sends a clear […]

A significant new collaboration between the African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) and Leica Camera AG will provide multi-year support to important waterbird monitoring activities such as […]

Every spring and autumn over 77 million migratory waterbirds and many more wetland-dependent other bird species migrate across the Mediterranean between their European breeding grounds […]

The 18th meeting of the Technical Committee to the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) took place between 14 and 16 March […]

The EU as well as Iceland, Norway and Lichtenstein have banned hunting using lead ammunition in wetlands, a milestone advocated for by our member Wildfowl […]

Coordinators for the International Waterbird Census met in November to share updates from their 2022 counts and plans for the upcoming 2023 surveys. The coordinators […]

Jean-Yves Mondain-Monval retires on 9 November from the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB) after a long carrier in waterbird research and management. In the late-1980s, Jean-Yves […]

The Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) adopted new “Complementary guidelines on climate change adaptation measures for waterbirds” during their MOP (Meeting […]