The Global Environment Facility Invites you to the Brown Bag Lunch Series

WOW - The Wings Over Wetlands Project: A look at global flyway conservation issues

Thursday May 12th, 2011
12:30-2:00 PM

GEF Secretariat (New Offices!)
Conference Room P5-165
900 19th Street, Presidential Plaza
Washington DC 20433
 

Speakers:

• Edoardo Zandr, UNEP/GEF
• Taej Mundkur, Wetlands International
• Nick Davidson, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
• Bert Lenten, African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement
• Moderator: Jaime Cavelier, Sr. Biodiversity Specialist, Natural Resources, GEF

Abstract:

Waterbirds travel vast distances, crossing many countries and often entire continents during their annual migration cycles along ‘flyways’ that connect breeding, staging and non-breeding areas. Their life cycles illustrate the connectivity and interdependence of ecosystems across the globe. Such an approach requires concerted management efforts along the entire flyway, ensuring that critical sites function effectively as a network, and are managed to maintain healthy ecosystems which meet the needs of waterbird populations as well as providing key services to local people.

What are the main achievements and innovative tools produced by WOW and other UNEP/GEF flyway projects? What are the most important emerging challenges in flyway conservation, and how can we tackle them? Please join us and we will try to answer some of these questions during the presentation and Q&A session.

For more information on the WOW project visit www.wingsoverwetlands.org.