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  Klaus Riede

Inspired by a suggestion of Klaus Riede, the former CMS Executive Secretary Arnulf Müller-Helmbrecht raised funds from Lufthansa and National Geographic Germany, to establish the UNEP/CMS Thesis Award on Migratory Species Conservation. The award of 10,000 EURO will be offered every three years at the Conference of Parties to CMS at alternating locations, and for the first time at the 8th meeting of the CMS Conference of the Parties (COP8) in November 2005. 36 applications from 21 nations have been received and will now be reviewed by experts. More and Online Application for 2008

New Orleans: U.S. government proposed broad international measures to curb the slaughter of sharks in the Atlantic Ocean: http://www.sharktrust.org/cgi/main.asp?newsfirst=493

IUCN Third World Conservation Congress opened in Bangkok, Thailand, from 17-25 November 2004.
The International Institute of Sustainable Development provides excellent daily coverage.
According to the GROMS database, 631 migratory species are covered by the Int. Red List 2000, i.e. 14.5% out of all 4,376 migrants identified by the GROMS. Make your own detailed analysis by using the GROMS database expert search interface, which allows detailed listing of distinct threat categories.

Multilingual User Guides for the 2004 edition of the GROMS CD now available online!
The user guide empowers novices to make simple database searches, and customize their own maps with the enclosed lightweight GIS freeware.This allows optimal use of 1,100 migratory species maps in GIS-format, and combinations with other environmental data sets such as oilspills, all available on this CD. To explore the new features, download the User Guide in your preferred language (English /German /French /Spanish).
Book and CD-ROM can be ordered at:
Riede, K.: Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081.2004, 330 pages + CD-ROM, 3-7843-3845-3

Final Report of CMS 25th Anniversary Symposium in Berlin, 22.6./23.6.2004, now online!

Greenpeace-Action in Berlin against Bycatch: Under the headline Life is not rubbish ( "Leben ist kein Abfall") Greenpeace filled the area before the Brandenburger Tor with bycatch from 2 hrs of fishing in the North Sea: 11,000 animals on a 100 m long table....

Mailing list on migratory species: Migration is an international discussion forum, trying to bring together researchers and conservationists working on migratory animals. Subscribe to Migration by sending an email to: majordomo@listserv.uni-bonn.de, subject: leave blank, text: subscribe migration
To post information to the list, send an email to: mailto:listname@listserv.uni-bonn.de.
For questions or problems please contact Klaus Riede: groms@gmx.de.

New book Biological Resources and migration" now published by Springer.

100 scientists from 24 countries met for an International Conference and OECD Workshop on Biological Resources and Migration at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany, from October 5-8, 2003. The interdisciplinary meeting covered the migration of biological resources such as plants, animals, microorganisms and genes, and combined these fields with the migration of people. The GROMS information system was presented by Klaus Riede (Germany) within a session on animal migration, embedded into lectures on migration in aquatic invertebrates (Bert Higler, The Netherlands), fishes and sea mammals Paul Rodhouse and Ian Boyd, UK), and on nature conservation consequences of changes in migration and dispersal (Harald Plachter, Germany). The wide spectrum of topics reached from human migration in the Sahel (Werner Fricke) to dispersal of pathogens (S. Becker: Be a virus, see the world). The conference proceedings have now been published by Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York

New Species Fact Sheets:
based on our GROMS GIS maps we now publish 511 additional maps together with information on migratory movements. A total of 1181 species fact sheets is now available and searchable via the GROMS database or Google (type species name + GROMS).

CITES Parties meet in Bangkok from 1st of October, for COP13. A considerable number of migrants is also listed by CITES - you can explore the complementarities between these two important Wildlife Conventions by searching for congruences between CMS and CITES, using the GROMS database expert search interface.

7th CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (CBD -COP-7) closing in Kuala Lumpur Click here for excellent coverage and summaries. The GROMS database is part of the german contribution for the Clearinghouse Mechanism (CHM), which should "develop a global mechanism for exchanging and integrating information on biodiversity".

Sea turtles could go extinct unless key migratory routes protected, say scientists meeting at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Seattle, February, 2004. Read on about Safeguarding the ocean road

New whale species described Japanese scientists described a new species of Balaenoptera, which is characterized by its unique cranial morphology, its small number of baleen plates, and by its distant molecular relationships with all of its congeners. The analyses also separated Balaenoptera brydei (Bryde's whale) and Balaenoptera edeni (Eden's whale) into two distinct species, raising the number of known living Balaenoptera species to eight. The species was named Balaenoptera omurai (see publication in Nature 2003). Up to now, it was probably confused with the fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus, an interoceanic migrant listed on CMS App I & II. As its congener, the new species probably is "Endangered". Note that the description of new species "reduces" the population of those "species" within which it was hitherto included!.

Flyway animation of Aquila pomarina (Lesser spotted eagle): Click here for flyways
Based on data from Meyburg, B. und Meyburg, C. (2002): Monitoring raptors by means of satellite telemetry, Raptors in the new millenium, International Birding & Research Center, Eilat, p.22-32.
See also www.raptor-research and Groms Fact Sheet

A new census of past whale populations suggests that some were once about 10 times larger than previously suspected! the study was recently published in SCIENCE magazine, and presents evidence that historical population numbers given by the International Whaling Commission are far too low!

New Letter of Agreement (LoA) between CMS and Museum Koenig (ZFMK) This LoA has been signed on 5th of July, and guarantees further funding of GROMS until 2004. (ZFMK)

Flyway animations of Ciconia ciconia

This map shows the number of migratory species in several (890) ecoregions of the world (total number of species: 846). It has been generated by a GIS based intersection of the www-eco.shp file provided by ArcView/ESRI and GROMS distribution maps. Then the species within each ecoregion have been counted. It must be kept in mind that some categories, for example "Snow, ice, glacies and rock", are not local but can be found in several areas. Unusual high values in these categories are composed of snow and ice areas of the whole map. print version

The Icelandic Government will put thousands of pairs of nesting Pink-footed Geese at risk by sanctioning two hydro-electric schemes, according to information published by BirdLife International on Jan 15th, 2003. Pinkfooted geese (Anser brachyrhynchus) migrate from Iceland to Great Britain (see GROMS fact sheet and map. Iceland destroys their breeding grounds, which are protected by the Ramsar Convention. Therefore, Iceland violates the Ramsar Convention, which it ratified in 1978. In addition, Pinkfooted geese are listed on CMS Appendix II and protected by the AEWA.

The Prestige oilspill was no the first in the area! GROMS provides a GIS data set of oilspills from 1967 to 1991 for download download.