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Welcome to the website of the Oceania programme of Wetlands International; the only global NGO dedicated to sustaining and restoring wetlands. This is a subsite of the global wetlands site and is maintained by our our offices in Australia and Fiji.

On this site, we present you our work (including a clickable map with our projects) and all our publications that result from our activities.

Feel free to contact us for questions about wetlands in Oceania or about our work.

Publications

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The report provides the most recent estimates of population sizes of migratory shorebirds in the East Asian - Australasian Flyway and identifies internationally important sites by species and country.

A project completion report on an aerial survey conducted over rarely visited, remote wetlands of the northern Tanami Desert, north-western Australia, presenting data on waterbird species and numbers following exceptional inundation.

Results of the Asian Waterbird Census: 2002–2004. The report demonstrates the significant value of the Waterbird Census, which covered 2,032 sites across 22 countries, with nearly 8 million waterbirds recorded in all three years. Of the total 274 waterbird and 61 wetland-dependent species recorded, 43 were Globally Threatened species.

Status and Conservation of Shorebirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway

Swamp complex on floodplains in the Channel Country Ecoregion in Queensland, Australia

Our latest news

Surveys in Samoa expand island's known freshwater biodiversity

Surveys by scientists of Wetlands International Oceania, IUCN Ocenania and Paris Museum of Natural History in France confirmed that Samoa has a unique and highly threatened freshwater fauna. At least three new records of fish were recorded for Samoa including one (perhaps 2) potential new species to science.

Projects

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The project involves creation of a special communication enhancement package to support the development of the East Asian - Australasian Flyway Partnership: the partnership aimed at conservation of the migratory waterbird populations and the wetland areas they depend on.

This project  will develop an approach in high biodiversity tropical mangrove areas and associated coral reef, sea-grass and upland ecosystems for the ability to recover from Climate Change impacts.

This project involved the first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Working Group on Migratory Waterbirds and Avian Influenza, which aimed to establish a regional network of management agencies and organizations of Asia-Pacific that facilitates collaboration on research and monitoring of Avian Influenza (AI) in wild waterbirds. it was held in Beijing in vember 2007, with wide representation.


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