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WMBD featured on other websites:

Below you will find a running list of different websites which featured stories on World Migratory Bird Day 2008. In case you know of any others please send these to us so that we can include them here. Thank you!

• United Nations Environment Programme [ link | screenshot ]
• Ramsar Convention on Wetlands [ link | screenshot ]
• British Trust for Ornithology [ link | screenshot ]
• BirdLife International [ link | screenshot ]
• Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)[ link | screenshot ]

WMBD 2008 Press Coverage:

Below you will find a running list of WMBD 2008 related press clippings. In case you know of any others please send these to us so that we can include them in this list. Thank you!

• UN News Centre: Migratory birds threatened by changing environment, UN warns (8 May 2008) [ link | screenshot ]
• DW Radio: Migratory Birds Are Ambassadors For Biodiversity, Says UN [ link | AUDIO INTERVIEW]
• AFP: UN sounds alarm over decline in migratory birds [ link | screenshot ]
• The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka): When various feathered ambassadors flock here - This weekend is dedicated to the world’s migratory birds [ link | screenshot ]
• Le Monde: Baisse du nombre des oiseaux migrateurs: l'UNEP tire la sonnette d'alarme [ link | screenshot ]
• Telegraph (UK): Skies fill with birds as migration peaks (by Brian Unwin, 13 MAy 2008) [ link | screenshot ]
• allAfrica.com: Ghana: Ambassadors for Biodiversity World Migratory Bird Day 2008 [ link | screenshot ]
• The Age (Australia): Godwits in flight to reveal habitat's plight [ link | screenshot ]
• Independent (South Africa): Last call for flight 2008 to Europe... (by Leon Marshall, 11 May 2008) [ link | screenshot ]
• Cyprus Mail: Birds to be set free to mark World Migratory Birds Day [ link | screenshot ]
• Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka): World Migratory Bird Day [ link | screenshot ]
• Media Newswire: Countdown for World Migratory Bird Day - The Sociable Lapwing: the Plight of Migratory Birds [ link | screenshot ]
• NewsOK: Nature center observes World Bird Day [ link | screenshot ]
• The New Straits Times (Malaysia): Need to gazette sanctuaries for migratory birds [ link | screenshot ]
• Newspress (France): Le nombre d'oiseaux migrateurs en déclin - signe avant coureur des changements de l'environnement [ link | screenshot ]
• Tucumanhoy: Alerta ambiental por la disminución de aves migratorias [ link | screenshot ]
• The Monitor (Uganda): _Uganda's Migratory Bird Sites Threatened [ link | screenshot ]
• MediaGlobal: Drop in migratory bird numbers indicates widespread biodiversity loss (20 May 2008) [ link | screenshot ]
• Ghana Broadcasting Corporation: World leaders urged to protect migratory bird sites (25 May 2008) [ link | screenshot ]