Media Event

Take a group of wildlife club young members and leaders for activities along the National RAMSAR site for Birdwatching and other observations. We will also talk to community members about Migratoy Bird and their actions to help them. At the end children will make drawings of their choice on the theme followed by a picnic on the beach. [We are holding the activity one week later because the weekend of 12-13 May was election Day in Seychelles so not a very good idea to take children out...]

-Poems by school kids -Presentations by BirdLife Zimbabwe staff and members -Birdwatching

i) -Awareness campaigns on WMBD, wild birds, climate change and African Flyways in schools (primary school, Secondary/High School and University)
ii) -Meeting with an association of poultry farmers to share information on the role of wild birds in the progation of bird flu.
iii) -Search, arrange and distribute handouts related to migratory birds, bird flu, African flyway and climate change
iv) -Press briefing/media coverage/interviews on the role of migratory birds in a changing climate and information on Africa Flyway concept.

Information for visitors on White Stork, Black Stork, Common Crane, Waldrapp Ibis and Hoopoe.
Media Event.

We are three EVS volunteers for a media project called mediart in Serres, Greece - Steven Price(Wales) Stephanie Williams(Wales) and Jonas Aberg (Sweden). We work on a radio station called Rodon fm(http://rodonfm.net/v01/)producing and making our own shows. On sunday the 13th of May we will air a live radio show in English about World Migratory Bird Day between 13:30-14:30 Greek time, we also have radio spots that we already have playing during comercials to promote the event.

We will held a Big Bird Race at tidal flat to watch wader or snipe birds migrated from Australia.

We expect that more than 150 students and people would participate this event to watch migratory Birds and local company supporters for wetland conservations willingly funded to protect the birds.

The student team will be seperated into 12 groups around Bongam tidal flat which is artificially restortated by NGOs and citizens and only suburb area to watch the sensitive and week bird species.

To celebrate the WMBD 2007 Association \"Les Amis des Oiseaux\" (AAO), the BirdLife International Partner in Tunisia, is joining hands with the Regional Activities Center for Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA), who is funding the planned events, and the Media Library in Ariana.
The following five events are planned:

On the occasion of the WMBD on 12-13 May 2007 the Dortmund Zoo highlights the threats for three of its bird species caused by climate change. The Zoo will publish a press release with information concerning migratory birds. In this particular case, the White Stork, the Crane, and the Turtledove serve to represent the many other migratory birds facing the loss of their habitats and changes to their migration patterns, which endanger their survival.

This set of events includes a presentation on the topic of \'Migratory Birds and Climate Change\' (French) and a visit to a local Ramsar site in Madagascar. WMBD will further be promoted as part of this.

We are going to send a press release about the WMBD later this week, and the chosen subject, climate change. We couldn\'t organize something more ambitious, since this event was out of our schedule when we planned the year. We hope next year we can participate more actively, specially if the date is little bit sooner in the year.