Media Event

This WMBD event includes:

Environment Conservation Focus will undertake a media awareness raising campaign, birdwatching trips and education events on the occasion of World Migratory Bird Day.

Educational event organized in cooperation with NGO-s, involved in nature protection in Croatia. Several workshops, lectures as well as entertainment activities will be organized. The theme of this years WMBD will be respected and sustainable land use will be the main topic of the event.

This WMBD event includes discussions and interactions on the surveys that have been carried out by school children in the winter season. Resided communities from all around the protected areas (such as Keoladeo National Park (Bharatpur, Rajasthan) and Mt Abu Wildlife Sanctuary (Sirohi, Rajasthan) will take part in the event accompanied by local/regional media. The interactive sessions will raise awareness on the importance of these sites and strategies for the protection of these sites will be discussed.

NGOs, students and QMM employees will observe aquatic birds during 2 days. The morning session of the event runs from 5h00hrs until 9h00hrs with birdwatching activities and will be followed by sensitisation about the 2011 theme.
In 2010, within the 2 days we observed around 300 aquatic birds. QMM supports this educational programm since 2002 and this year will be the 10th anniversary of our birdwatching event in collaboration with Asity Madagascar.

We will teach courses relating to the conservation of birds in our province for field trips, currently taking place. We will conduct awareness raising talks throughout the year. Additionally, we will offer a trip to Lagunas de los Pozuelos (Ramsar Site) to observe migratory plovers coming from the North Pole.

Associated Media will showcase migratory birds in "Paradise on the Earth" - Kashmir. We will involve many schools for film showing sessions to create general awareness about the plight and misuse of marshy wetlands and depressions - the home of migratory birds - for constructing houses and resendential areas.

IT’S FOR THE BIRDS! LITTLE RIVER CANYON CENTER LAUNCHES APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS BI...RDING TRAIL The Appalachian Highlands Birding Trail (AHBT) will be launched on International Migratory Bird Day, May 12, 2012. The Jacksonville State University Environmental Policy and Information Center (EPIC) and the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce will host the ceremony which will begin at 1:00 p.m. at the Little River Canyon Center in Fort Payne, AL. The AHBT includes six gateway sites, forty birding sites and connects the North Alabama Birding Trail to the Piedmont Plateau Birding Trail.

There will be joining NGO and Go of Kosovo to celebrate this important activity in Prishtina first the capital city of. AKMM will be the place where we can join each other for having a kind of presentation for publishing the first book of birds in Kosovo. Later there will be a bird watching session at Hence near Prishtina Airport.

Awareness campaign shall be held in Primary, Middle and High Schools where students shall take part in Poster, Painting, Symposium and Rally. Bird Watching camps shall also be held. lectures on the migrating species and their migrating routes shall also be held. About 300 students, 50 schools shall be participating in three districts of Ramban, Doda and Kishtwar in J&K state of India.