The Interim Coordinating Unit of the Raptors MoU and the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO) Aquitaine co-organized a special 'Bird Migration Watch' day at the Pointe de Grave in South West France on World Migratory Bird Day. LPO was also celebrating its 100th anniversary!

The 1st Pan African Vulture Summit (PAVS) was convened in the Masai Mara, Kenya on 16-20 April 2012 and invited input from a wide range of Vulture specialists, researchers and Government wildlife representatives from across the continent. The objective was to gather information from both local and regional perspectives and to devise and promote the implementation of a Pan-African Vulture Conservation Plan.

Programme Officer, Nick P. Williams, reports back on his first 100 days in office.

The Interim Coordinating Unit for the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the Conservation of Migratory Birds of Prey in Africa and Eurasia welcomed a new Programme Officer this week as Mr Nick P. Williams joined the UNEP/CMS Office in Abu Dhabi.