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Multi-species Action Plan to Conserve African-Eurasian Vultures (Vulture MsAP) - CMS Technical Series No.35/Raptors MOU Technical Publication No.5

CMS Technical Series No.35
CMS Raptors MOU Technical Publication No.5

Vultures are a distinctive and important components of biodiversity. They also provide critical ecosystem services by cleaning up carcasses and other organic waste in the environment, which has huge ramifications in preventing the spread of diseases in both wild and domestic animals, and pathogenic risks to humans.

09 February 2023

Saker Falcon Falco cherrug Global Action Plan (SakerGAP)

Including a management and monitoring system to conserve the species

CMS Raptors MOU Technical Publication No.2

CMS Technical Series No.31

29 January 2020

First Central Asian Migration Atlas Created to Reduce Harm to Wildlife from Infrastructure

growing number of railways, roads, pipelines, and fences increasingly threatens large migratory mammals such as Mongolian gazelles in Central Asia. CREDIT: Copyright Ganbayar Hureelen.

The growing number of railways, roads, pipelines, and fences increasingly threatens large migratory mammals such as Mongolian gazelles in Central Asia. CREDIT: Copyright Ganbayar Hureelen. Additional images available here: http://bit.ly/2qssGHe

Растущее число автомобильных и железных дорог, трубопроводов и заборов все больше угрожает крупным мигрирующим млекопитающим, таким как Монгольские Газели в Центральной Азии. Авторское право: Ганбаяр Хюрелен. Дополнительные изображения доступны по данной ссылке: http://bit.ly/2qssGHe

Vilm, Germany (May 4, 2017)– Experts have for the first time mapped the distribution and movement corridors of migratory mammals in combination with threats from linear infrastructure, such as railways, roads, pipelines, and border fences, across the entire Central Asian region.

04 May 2017

Mortality Event Hits Mongolian Saiga

Saiga males © Pavel Sorokin

Saiga males © Pavel Sorokin

Reports have reached the Secretariat that an outbreak of what is thought to be peste-des-petits ruminants (sheep and goat plague) is occurring among the Saiga Antelopes in Mongolia, where already more than 1,000 individuals have died and the epidemic is continuing.

30 January 2017

Standard Operating Procedures for detecting and reacting to incidents of health risks for and die-offs in Saiga antelopes and other wildlife in Kazakhstan

In 2010 and 2015 mass die-off events have been observed in Saiga antelope of the Ural and Betpak-Dala populations in Kazakhstan. In intervening years, smaller die-offs of hundreds to a few thousands of animals have also been observed. These are the first such reported incidents after the dramatic decline in numbers in the 1990s, which led to the current status of a critically endangered species. Only a few thousand animals were left in 2003. Hunting of Saiga antelopes is forbidden and the species is protected by international conventions.

15 August 2017

Signos de esperanza para el antílope saiga después de la mortandad masiva de 2015

Antílope saiga (Saiga tatarica) - © Navinder Singh

Antílope saiga (Saiga tatarica) - © Navinder Singh

En mayo de 2015, una mortandad catastrófica y sin precedentes causada por una infección bacteriana acabó con más de 200.000 antílopes saiga en pocas semanas. La población de saigas de Betpak-Dala en Kazajstán central perdió casi el 90% de sus animales, lo que equivale a más del 60% de la población mundial, dejando a la especie en una situación crítica. Actualmente, el Ministerio de Agricultura de la República de Kazajstán publicó los resultados de un censo aéreo, que se realizó en abril de 2016. Los datos del censo muestran un aumento del número de saigas en las tres poblaciones presentes en Kazajstán, el principal Estado del área de distribución de este antílope.

15 June 2016

CMS and ACBK raise awareness on migratory mammals at the mining forum “Minex Central Asia” in Astana

Aerial View of Astana, Capital of Kazakhstan - photo: www.astana.gov.kz

Aerial View of Astana, Capital of Kazakhstan - photo: www.astana.gov.kz
Аэроснимок Астаны, столицы Казахстана - фото: www.astana.gov.kz

The 7th mining forum "MINEX Central Asia – 2016" was hosted in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana on 19-21 April 2016. For the first time the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), represented by Kazakhstan’s largest nature conservation NGO, the Association for the Conservation of the Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK), participated in a major event organized by the mining industry.

15 May 2016