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Genetic Structure and Diversity of Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) from South China Sea inferred by mtDNA control region sequence

We analyzed 88 control region sequences of green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) from around Hainan Island in the South China Sea. These sequences had a length of 489 bp and revealed 8 mtDNA haplotypes of which four haplotypes (CMC1, CMC4, CMC7, and CMC8) had not been discovered before. Haplotype diversity (h) and nucleotide diversity (π) were 0.45 ± 0.054 and 0.0035 ± 0.0014, respectively. Neighbor-Joining tree based on control region sequences revealed that genetic relationship between green sea turtles from the South China Sea and from Japan Sea were very close.

13 September 2018

Flyway Action Plan for the Conservation of the Balkan and Central Asian Populations of the Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus (EVFAP)

BSPB Conservation Series No.32
 
CMS Raptors MOU Technical Publication No.4
 
The Egyptian Vulture is a long distance migrant, and is found throughout Eurasia and Africa. The population that is targeted by this Action Plan breeds across the Balkans, Central Asia and Caucasian region, and migrates to wintering grounds that largely overlap with the range of the resident population of the same species in the Middle East, Central and East Africa.
 
29 January 2020

Plan d’action multi-espèces pour conserver les vautours d'Afrique-Eurasie (PAME Vautours)

Plan d’action multi-espèces pour conserver les vautours d'Afrique-Eurasie (PAME Vautours)

Série technique de la CMS no. 35

Publication technique no. 5 du MdE Rapaces de la CMS 

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