PUTTING NATURE AT THE CENTER As 2020 unfolds, the world begins to see that this is no ordinary year. It has been 20 years since the world first celebrated the International Day of Biodiversity (IDB) – a day that appreciates the total variety of life on Earth and reviews our global commitments for its protection, […]
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Birds Connect Our World: Promoting Wetland Protection to Save Spoon-billed Sandpipers in the Yellow Sea Region
The current global crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic is reminding all of us that “everything connects to everything else” and that one action can have ripple effects influencing and affecting another directly or indirectly. The same is true even to birds and their habitats that are often taken for granted. Today, we are […]
Read more...YSLME MESSAGE IN CELEBRATION OF INTERNATIONAL MOTHER EARTH DAY 2020
Eleven years ago, the United Nations General Assembly declared April 22 as International Mother Earth Day and adopted the first resolution on Harmony with Nature. This momentous resolution emphasized the importance to balance economic, social, and environmental needs for the benefit of the present and future generations. Today, this key message resounds more loudly globally […]
Read more...A New Wetland Park in Yancheng City of China Gives Hope to the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper
Yancheng, PR China – 12,746 hectares of area in Tiaozini, Dongtai of Yancheng City were set as one of China’s new city wetland park in 2019. Tiaozini is considered as the most important staging site for the globally critically endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper with only 661-718 individuals remaining in the wild according to a study in […]
Read more...Asking for Comments: Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis for the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem 2020
Transboundary diagnostic analysis (TDA) is a key step in strategic planning for science and ecosystem-based adaptive management of the large marine ecosystems (LMEs). TDA was for the first time conducted in the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem (YSLME) in 2007, and provided the basis for developing the YSLME strategic action programme (SAP) in 2009. […]
Read more...YSLME Partners Discussed Solutions to Prevent and Control Marine Litter in Weihai
On December 16, the UNDP/GEF YSLME Phase II Project (hereinafter referred to as YSLME II Project) organized a workshop on prevention and control of marine litter in Weihai City of Shandong Province, PR China, in collaboration with Shandong Marine Resources and Environment Institute. Fifteen representatives from Weihai Ocean Development Bureau, Weihai Ecology and Environment Bureau, […]
Read more...LME:LEARN Organized Asian Regional LMEs Workshop in Bali to Improve Data and Information Management
On December 3-5, 2019, the Asian Regional Workshop on Data and Information Management (DIM) was held in Bali of Indonesia hosted by the Regional Capacity Centre for Clean Seas (RC3S) and organized by GEF LME:Learn Project and the PEMSEA. Mr. Dida Migfar Ridha, Director of Coastal and Marine Pollution and Degradation Control of the Ministry […]
Read more...The 4th YSLME Partners Meeting Agreed on Timetable to Adopt the Updated YSLME Strategic Action Programme
One November 28 of 2019, the Fourth Meeting of the Interim Commission Council of UNDP/GEF YSLME Phase II Project held in Jeju of RO Korea reviewed the second draft of the transboundary diagnostic analysis (TDA) update report and approved the workplan for update the strategic action programme (SAP) of YSLME up to 2030. The meeting […]
Read more...YSLME Releases the Marine Protected Area Network Development Training Toolkit
The UNDP/GEF YSLME Phase II Project releases another training module – designing a network of marine protected areas for the Yellow Sea based on the principles of biophysical connectivity, an MPA network developing training toolkit for use of practitioners within and beyond the Yellow Sea. The training toolkit was compiled by Ms. Rocío Lozano-Knowlton, Executive […]
Read more...UNDP/GEF Supports Reemployment Training of Fishermen Joining the Fishing Vessel Buyback Scheme to Reduce Fishing Efforts in Yellow Sea
On November 11, 2019, Yantai University of PR China launched a course on occupational training in marine ranching and recreational fishery for 60 fishermen from Shandong Province. The training was supported by UNDP/GEF YSLME Phrase II Project in a bid to reduce fishing pressure while ensuring social safeguards of displaced fishermen joining the fishing vessel […]
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