The African-Eurasian Waterbird Monitoring Partnership, a coalition of 80+ organisations involved in waterbird monitoring and management. The Partnership supports the development of national monitoring systems and improvement of monitoring information available for internationally important population size and trend estimates. The data gathered by the Partnership is made accessible through various information services such as the AEWA Conservation Status Reports, the Waterbird Population Estimates and the Critical Site network Tool.
The partnership consists of:
- National agencies responsible for the management of waterbird populations;
- Over 80 organisations that coordinate the International Waterbird Census nationally;
- Representatives of the Wetlands International/IUCN SSC Specialist Groups;
- Representatives of Members of Wetlands International;
- Organisations that coordinate complementary monitoring schemes or capacity building programmes.
The Strategic Working Group that steers the Partnership is made up of:
Dr. Johan Mooij (Member Delegate for Germany), Wetlands International Members Representative and Chairman.
Angus Middleton & Cy Griffin, representatives of Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation of the EU - FACE
Anne-Laure Brochet (Tour du Valat), Mediterranean Waterbird Monitoring Programme
Chas Holt (British Trust for Ornithology-BTO), European National Coordinator Representative
Jean-Yves Mondain-Monval representative of Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage - ONCFS
John Musina (National Museum of Kenya), African National Coordinator Representative
Lincoln Fishpool representative of BirdLife International
Sergey Dereliev representative of African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement -AEWA
Marc van Rooman (SOVON Vogelonderzoek Nederland), special counts of intertidal mudflats in Africa & Middle East
Richard Hearn (Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust-WWT), WI/IUCN SSC Specialist Group representative
Professor Tony Fox (Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience), Geese and Swan counts representative
Verena Keller (Schweizerische Vogelwarte), representative of European Bird Census Council - EBCC
Currently the following institutions provide dedicated financial support to the coordination of the African-Eurasian Waterbird Census:
Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (Switzerland)
MAVA Foundation
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) (United Kingdom)
We also depend upon the support and coooperation of our national coordinators and their organisations. For more information on the national coordinators of the African-Eurasian region, please visit the National Coordinators page.