The CMS Event calendar provides a listing of dates of interest
relevant to CMS, its Regional Agreements and MoUs, and the
greater migratory species conservation community.
| Date |
TITLE |
VENUE |
ORGANISED BY |
| 1st Quarter |
CMS Pacific Marine Turtle MoU: Initial
Meeting |
Apia, Samoa |
CMS |
| 1st Quarter |
IOSEA Fifth Meeting of the Signatory
States |
|
IOSEA |
| January
2008 |
| 9-10 |
Conference: MINOS – Marine warm-blooded animals
in the North and Baltic Seas: Foundations for assessment
of offshore wind farms |
Hamburg, Germany |
http://www.minos-info.org/ |
| 14-18 |
Asian Regional Preparatory Meeting for COP10 of the
Ramsar Convention |
Bangkok, Thailand |
|
| 15-18 |
15th Meeting of Parties to Barcelona Convention (for
the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal
Region of the Mediterranean) |
Almeria, Spain |
UNEP/MEDU |
| 19-26 |
28th Sea Turtle Symposium |
Loreto, Mexico |
http://iconferences.seaturtle.org |
| Week of 21-25 |
Stakeholders Meeting on EC Programme on Capacity Building
related to MEAs in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)
Countries |
Brussels, Belgium |
UNEP/DELC |
| 23-25 |
International Symposium on Avian Influenza: Integration
from Knowledge to Control |
Bangkok, Thailand |
BIOTEC |
| 26-30 |
Ramsar STRP Meeting |
Gland, Switzerland |
Ramsar |
| 29-31 |
2nd Steering Committee Wings Over Wetlands project |
Wageningen, Netherlands |
|
| 30-31 |
2nd Whale Symposium: “A Change in Climate for
Whales” |
Tokyo, Japan |
Pew Environment Group at UNU Tokyo |
| February 2008 |
| 4-8 |
UNESCO Biosphere Reserves Conference |
Madrid, Spain |
UNESCO |
| 6-7 |
4th Meeting of HELCOM project to
produce the HELCOM thematic assessment on biodiversity
and nature conservation (HELCOM BIO 4/2008) |
Copenhagen, Denmark |
HELCOM |
| 13-16 |
4th International Partners in Flight
(PIF) Conference
“Tundra to Tropics: Connecting
Habitats and People”
|
Texas, USA |
|
| 19-22 |
GNF: Living Lakes Eastern Europe
Network Conference (on Sustainable Development of Lake
Areas |
Tartu, Estonia |
GNF |
| 20-22 |
10th Special Session of UNEP Governing
Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum
Theme: Globalisation and the Environment: Mobilising
Finance to meet the Climate Change
|
Monaco |
UNEP |
| 22-25 |
3rd International Conference on
Global Warming and Climate Change (GWCC 2008) |
London, UK |
IDO |
| 25-27 |
ASCOBANS: 4th Meeting of the Jastarnia
Group |
Sweden |
|
| 25-28 |
COHAB 2 – Second International
Conference on Health & Biodiversity, 2008 |
Galway, Ireland |
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| March 2008 |
| 1-4 |
8th Meeting of the AEWA Technical
Committee |
Naivasha, Kenya |
AEWA |
| 5-7 |
CMS 2nd Signatory Meeting West African Marine Turtles
MoU |
Dakar, Senegal |
CMS |
| 5-7 |
AEWA Regional Meeting for Africa |
Nairobi, Kenya |
AEWA |
| 6-8 |
Intersessional Meeting on the Future of IWC |
London, UK |
|
| 10 |
European Premiere of IMAX movie “Dolphins and
Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean” |
Berlin, Germany |
|
| 10-12 |
MARMAM 2008 Conference (Marine Mammals: Past, Present
and Future) and AGM of European Cetacean Society |
Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands |
European Cetacean Society |
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| April 2008 |
| (1st half) |
ASCOBANS: 15th Meeting of the Advisory
Committee |
|
ASCOBANS |
| 16-18 (tent) |
CMS Great Bustard MoU: 2nd Meeting
of the Signatories |
Feodosia, Ukraine |
CMS |
| 22-26 |
CIC 55th General Assembly: “Hunting:
a Tool for Sustainable Rural Development” |
Marrakech, Morocco |
CIC |
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| May 2008 |
| 10-11 |
World Migratory Bird Day 2008 |
worldwide |
|
| 12-16 |
4th Meeting of Parties to the Cartagena
Protocol on Biosafety |
Bonn, Germany |
|
| 19-30 |
CBD COP9
28-30 May: High Level Segment
Official Presentation of ” CMS Family Guide” |
Bonn, Germany |
CBD |
| 29 May- 27 June |
60th Annual Meeting of the International
Whaling Commission (IWC) |
Santiago, Chile |
IWC |
| June 2008 |
| 15-19 |
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| 19-22 |
3rd Meeting of ACAP Advisory Committee |
Valdivia, Chile |
ACAP |
| 26-28 |
Avian Influenza Task Force Workshop
"Lessons Learned" |
Aviemore, Scotland |
AI Taskforce |
| July 2008 |
| 20-25 |
8th International Wetlands Conference (INTECOL) -
“Big Wetlands, Big Concerns” |
Cuiaba, Brazil |
www.cppantanal.org.br/intecol |
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| August 2008 |
| 11-15 |
4th International Conference on
the Biology and Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels |
Cape Town, South Africa |
ACAP: |
| 17-18 |
ACAP: Seabird Bycatch Working Group
Meeting |
Hermanus, South Africa |
ACAP: |
| 18 |
ACAP: Status and Trends Working
Group Meeting |
Hermanus, South Africa |
ACAP: |
| 18-22 |
XIth European Bat Research Symposium |
Cluj, Romania |
Eurobats |
| 18-19 |
IOSEA Advisory Committee Meeting |
Bali, Indonesia |
|
| 19 |
CMS Dugong Meeting |
Bali, Indonesia |
|
| 20 |
ACAP: Breeding Sites Working Group
Meeting |
Hermanus, South Africa |
ACAP: |
| 20-23 |
IOSEA: 5th Meeting of Signatory
States |
Bali, Indonesia |
|
| 22-25 |
ACAP: Fourth Meeting of the Advisory
Committee,
|
Somerset West, Cape Town, South
Africa |
ACAP: |
| 23-24 |
13th meeting of Eurobats Advisory
Committee |
Cluj, Romania |
EUROBATS |
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| September
2008 |
| 7-11 |
MOP4 AEWA |
Antananarivo, Madagascar |
AEWA |
| 7-12 |
12th Pan-African Ornithological
Congress |
Cape Town, South Africa |
|
| 8-12 |
SPREP: 19th Meeting of the South
Pacific Regional Environment Programme |
Federated States of Micronesia |
SPREP |
| 22 |
33rd CMS Standing Committee (Teleconference) |
Bonn |
|
| 22-25 |
Regional Capacity-Building Workshop
for Central Africa on Integrating Migratory Species
into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans |
Limbé, Cameroon |
|
| 22-27 |
BirdLife World Conference |
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
|
| 28 Sep - 2 Oct |
Conference on Integrating Human
Dimensions into Fisheries and Wildlife Management |
Estes Park, Colorado |
link
to website (external) |
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| October 2008 |
| 2-3 |
2nd Meeting to negotiate a CMS instrument
on Western African small cetaceans and manatees |
Lomé, Togo |
CMS, jointly with the Ministry of
Environment, Tourism and Forest Resources of Togo |
| 5-14 |
IUCN Congress |
Barcelona, Spain |
IUCN |
| 6-10 |
1st Meeting of the Parties of the
MoU on Grassland Birds of South America |
Foz de Iguazu, Brazil |
organised with BirdLife International |
| 18-20 |
YoD Closing Event |
Greece |
Postponed to December 11-13 |
| 20-22 |
2nd Meeting to negotiate a Raptors
Agreement |
Abu Dhabi, UAE |
|
| 20-23 |
3rd Mediterranean Conference on
Marine Turtles |
Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia |
organised by INSTM, Tunisia; jointly
suggested by CMS and the Bern and Barcelona Conventions |
| 25 |
UN Day |
Bonn |
City of Bonn, UN in Bonn |
| 28 Oct – 4 Nov |
Ramsar COP10 |
Changwon, Gyeoungnam,
Republic of Korea |
Ramsar |
| 29-31 |
Technical Workshop on Saiga Antelope |
Almaty, Kazakhstan |
Saiga Conservation Alliance |
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| November 2008 |
| 6-7 |
East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership
- MOP3 |
Incheon, Rep of Korea |
|
| 9-12 |
Great Bustard MOU 2nd Meeting of
Signatory States (including Symposium) |
Feodosia, Ukraine |
CMS jointly with the Ukrainian Ministry
of Environmental Protection, the Ukrainian Society for
Bird Protection and BirdLife International |
| 20-22 |
World Biodiversity Congress |
Chiang Mai, Thailand |
Century Foundation, India |
| 24-27 |
28th Meeting of the Bern Convention
Standing Committee |
Strasbourg, France |
|
| 25-26 |
Cetaceans-Dugong Workshop |
Seychelles |
Indian Ocean Commission |
| 27-28 |
CMS 15th Scientific Council Meeting |
Rome, Italy |
CMS |
| 27-28 |
2nd International Strategy Meeting
"Lakes and Wetlands" |
Gland, Switzerland |
GNF |
| 28-30 |
UNEP/GEF Siberian Crane Wetlands
Project Steering Committee Meeting |
Rome, Italy |
ICF |
| 29 |
Gorilla Agreement, First Meeting
of the Parties |
Rome, Italy |
CMS |
| 30 |
Aridland Mammals Meeting |
Rome, Italy |
CMS |
| 30 |
34th CMS Standing Committee |
Rome, Italy |
CMS |
| December 2008 |
| 1-5 |
CMS COP9 |
Rome, Italy |
CMS jointly with the Government
of Italy |
| 6-8 |
2nd Meeting on International Coooperation
on Migratory Sharks |
Rome, Italy |
CMS |
| 8 |
NCSE: 9th Conference on Science,
Polcy and Environment |
Washington DC |
|
| 9-11 |
YOD Closing Event |
Heraklion, Crete |
|
| 9-11 |
Marine Mammal Commission Annual
Meeting |
San Juan, Puerto Rico |
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