@_LucyWright you absolute star! Thank you so much for thinking of me and sending restorative goodies to help revive me after #BOU2021. It really brought a lump to my throat. Sending you a big virtual hug 🤗 x
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19 #BOU2021 #Sesh6 In summary, here's some personal reflections which I hope shed light on the arcane art of securing government support for restoration, to stop what may have happened to slender-billed curlews from happening to spoon-billed sandpipers or any other birds. The End
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18 #BOU2021 Final tip, 7: Treasure your connections with people! Success in bird populatin restoration depends on them. You never know where & when people you’ve met will pop up & become key allies.
Anything I've achieved has been "with [more than] a little help from my friends"
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17 #BOU2021 In 2019 China secured #WorldHeritage status for the world's top staging site for spoon-billed sandpiper & other waders. Hopefully South Korea's most important SbS site will be inscribed this year & China will nominate 14 Phase II sites in 2022...
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16 #BOU2021
In 2018 China's Yancheng nominated 1st two (eventually incl. Tiaozini, helped by sat tagging data eg of @GlobalFlyway) of 16 Yellow Sea coast #WorldHeritage sites & via a State Council Circular China banned further coastal wetland reclamation http://bit.ly/3f5Kfpl
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15 #BOU2021 But instead of destroying Tiaozini, staging site for half world's #SpoonbilledSandpipers, China began to nominate it as serial #WorldHeritage site in 2017, & with @IUCNAsia, N Korea & S Korea set up a #YellowSea #CoastalWetlands Working Group http://bit.ly/3f8QWHu
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14 #BOU2021 S Korea hosted #IUCN2012 on Yellow Sea coast. @IUCN produced a situation analysis on EAAF coastal wetlands https://bit.ly/3tIqloo & govs agreed via Resolution 28 to conserve them.
But new top #SpoonbilledSandpiper stopover at Jiangsu Tiaozini about to be reclaimed.
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13 #BOU2021 In 2009 #SpoonbilledSandpipers being monitored, breeding site being conserved, there was work to end shorebird trapping at wintering sites & do captive breeding & headstarting http://www.saving-spoon-billed-sandpiper.com But folk said impossible to stop loss of Yellow...
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12 #BOU2021 In 2006 the Spoon-billed Sandpiper's main Yellow Sea stopover in S Korea was destroyed causing a crash in many shorebird populations. @BonnConvention adopted a #SpoonbilledSandpiper action plan http://bit.ly/3sflvi5 & @EAAFP set up an SBS Task Force to implement it.
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11 #BOU2021 Progress in saving Spoon-billed Sandpipers from brink of extinction (c200 prs in 2008), involving many difft govts, organisations & people, illustrates the power of a compelling conservation objective. Still Critically Endangered but rate of decline probably >halved.
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10 #BOU2021
Tip 6: when we all focus on our contribution to the conservation objective, eg achieving a species population target or minimising a specific threat, action for birds works best. Motivations will differ but keeping eyes on the prize avoids bogging down in turf wars.
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9 #BOU2021 Tip 5: Govs must be held to account. National courts are 1 way. Treaty compliance mechanisms (eg @BonnConvention http://bit.ly/3tLyxUV are accessible to civil society & can help resolve conflict where 1 gov is threatening birds shared by many govs #StopTagusAirport
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8 #BOU2021 Tip 4: Governmnt sluggish in actioning its international commitments to bird restoration? Give evidence of what works for birds (& eg how much Carbon it would store, flood risk⬇️, livelihoods & wellbeing⬆️) & encourage them to scale up implementation for birds & people
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7 #BOU2021 Tip 3: #MigratoryBird restoration requires collaboration by all - govts contributing at all levels, driven by engaged electorate - to turn evidence into conservation action. End fragmentation between disciplines, between organisations & in scale. End myopia in silos!
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6 #BOU2021 Tip 2: Call on govts to turn fine words at global level into birds at local level! If they implemented all actions they agreed to via eg @BonnConvention, supporting each other via specific coordinated groups, #EcologicalConnectivity & #MigratoryBirds would be restored.
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5 #BOU2021 Here’s 7 tips on engaging governments in bird conservation esp. by using international agreements.
Tip 1: To get best deal for #MigratoryBirds funnel knowledge, incl. via @BirdLife_Policy, into intergovernmental decisions at regular treaty meetings. Next up #AEWAMOP8..
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4 #BOU2021 #MyPerspective 3) Flyway policy: championing concerted, cooperative intergovernmental conservation action esp. via @BonnConvention @unep_aewa @EAAFP.
Soft law, mainly via environment ministries.
Clever national reps use treaty decisions to strengthen national action.
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3 #BOU2021 #MyPerspective 2) In 2008 as chair of @BonnConvention Slender-billed Curlew WG I led a major search for it, failing to prove it's not 1st W. Palearctic bird extinction since Great Auk (1844). http://bit.ly/3tGYrJq http://slenderbilledcurlew.net Can’t let any more disappear!
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2 #BOU2021 #MyPerspectives are from 1) 40 yrs in bird conservation: research>policy, government>NGO & local>global. Mostly #MigratoryBirds, from 1992 @RSPBNews, from 2008 as @BirdLife_News Global Flyways Programme policy lead, channelling expertise into intergovernmentl decisions
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1 The need to discuss restoration shows failure to prevent bird declines. To capitalise on research shared at #BOU2021 #Sesh6 we must scale up action eg by embedding findings in government policy. Some thoughts on how better to engage governments via intergovernmental processes..
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That was fun! All went smoothly from the audience view (🤞🏼) but with some changes to Zoom Webinar since the last time @TriinKaasiku and I hosted an event last autumn, it was a little like wrestling a wee 🐖 covered in baby oil at times. Some tweaks tmrw before day 2 of #BOU2021!
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With thanks to @RyanABurrell for all his hard work in preparing for BOU2021. And a big shout out to @monika_reiss and @Nina_OHanlon who will be overseeing the #BOU2021 Twitter Conference over the next three days.
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We’re less than 2 hrs out from the start of #BOU2021 and one half of BOU2021 HQ is all ready to go (other half is @TriinKaasiku). These parallel events mean multiple devices! Only the four for me today as well as a good #oldschool paper printout of the schedule 😉 Enjoy!
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