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WPWC Newsletter No. 14 - December 2010

 

The main purpose of this newsletter is to keep coordinators of national waterbird monitoring schemes in Europe, North Africa, Southwest and Central Asia up-to-date with developments in the International Waterbird Census (IWC). It is also intended for counters and all others interested in IWC. For those who are behind with data submission, we wish to kindly request that you send waterbird count data up to and including January 2010

 


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This newsletter was compiled at Wetlands International’s headquarters in Ede, The Netherlands. Please e-mail if you have questions or comments: post@wetlands.org 


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