New initiative to protect migratory birds and habitats

A new international initiative that will help protect migratory birds – including those stopping in Singapore along the way – has won praise from conservationists, who say the effort can also help to protect crucial wetland habitats that are humanity’s key ally against climate change.

Singapore is a stop along the Central Asian Flyway, one of the world’s nine major “highways in the sky” that birds take to get from their breeding grounds in the wintry north to their feeding grounds in the tropics. As it turned out, some of these birds travelled across the Himalayas to reach their breeding grounds up north in China and Russia after they have fuelled up on worms and snails in the mudflats of Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.

The initiative is long overdue, he said. As the Central Asian Flyway overlaps with the East Asian-Australasian Flyway and African-Eurasian Flyway, it was overshadowed by the two in terms of research and international initiatives to drive its conservation, he added. Closing such research gaps can help governments designate protected areas for bird conservation and to restore and manage their habitats.

In South-east Asia and parts of South China, which make up a large area of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, wildlife trapping is very widespread, hence addressing bird hunting and trapping is more pressing in this flyway.

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