WORLD MIGRATORY BIRD DAY 2007
World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) is a global initiative devoted to celebrating migratory birds and for promoting their conservation worldwide. This year WMBD will take place on the weekend of 12-13 May and its central theme will be “Migratory birds in a changing climate”.
Migratory Birds in a Changing Climate
12-13 May 2007
World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) is a global initiative devoted to celebrating migratory birds and for promoting their conservation worldwide. This year WMBD will take place on the weekend of 12-13 May and its central theme will be “Migratory birds in a changing climate”.
Climate change has severe consequences for these nomads of the skies; it causes the loss of essential habitats, changes migration patterns and increases competition for food between migrating and resident birds.
The goal of WMBD 2007 is to try to focus world attention on the plight of migratory birds and to highlight that migratory birds are affected by global warming in the same way as all living things.
World Migratory Bird Day is being organised by the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement (UNEP/AEWA) together with the Convention on Migratory Species (UNEP/CMS) – two United Nations (UNEP) administered environmental treaties dedicated to the conservation of migratory animals. This year both BirdLife International and Wetlands International - two global NGOs dedicated to the protection of the world’s birds and wetlands have joined as partners of the WMBD campaign.
For more information please visit: www.worldmigratorybirdday.org
Or contact: Ms. Dunia Sforzin | UNEP/AEWA Secretariat | UN Premises, Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10, 53113 Bonn, Germany | Tel: +49 (0)228 815 2454 | Fax: +49 (0)228 815 2450 | E-mail: [email protected]
