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Our news blog offers insights into the latest advancements and activities that are related to the project. You will find the most recent blog entries in the slider below.

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Two men standing in shallow water putting fake birds in the water.

On the first weekend of February, LIFE Godwit Flyway project members Afonso Rocha and José Alves led and were joined by international colleagues for a…

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Various birds are standing in shallow water.

Migratory birds rely on a network of sites throughout their annual cycles, making them particularly vulnerable to changing environmental conditions,…

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Vast area that is relatively dry and that has scattered shrubby vegetation.

The Senegal River Delta is a hotspot for migratory birds flying along the East Atlantic Flyway. It is the first major resting area for migratory…

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Two separate bar charts. The upper one (A) shows that most Godwits are on fields with site...

The European Union subsidizes farmers that adopt practices that benefit biodiversity and ecosystem services. These subsidies, called agri-environment…

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Last Friday, the German/French TV channel ARTE released a 45-minute film on the conservation of the Black-tailed Godwit, for whose conservation the…

Black-tailed Godwit standing on a wooden post in front of a meadow.

It was a special appointment in a special place that Heinrich Belting was able to experience last Thursday (14 November). At the invitation of the…

Two men and a woman are standing in a room. The woman presents the man in the centre with a...

The website for the LIFE project “Conservation of the Black-tailed Godwit along the flyway”, short name “LIFE Godwit Flyway”, launched today. It…

A screenshot of the homepage of LIFE Godwit Flyway.

Together with his colleague from the Nature Conservation Station Unterelbe, Jan-Henrik Junge, Hilger Lemke – site manager for northern Lower Saxony in…

5 people are standing on the left of the picture, two of them are carrying camera equipment. In...

In our project areas in Lower Saxony, the Black-tailed Godwit breeding season slowly ends in late June: all known active nests already hatched.…

Two birds on a damp meadow, one sitting on the other with its wings outstretched.

In a recent exploratory visit to the Special Protection Area Barnbruch, representatives from NABU Ecological Station Aller/Oker (ÖNSA), the district…

Three people standing in a darkened hut watching a lake outside the windows. Posters of birds...

We are announcing two exciting PhD positions to contribute to meadow bird conservation in West Africa within our project. This research is a…

Two men stand in front of shallow water. Each of them has a tripod with a spotting scope.

The green vastness of the Ems dyke forelands is still home to highly endangered meadow bird species such as Lapwing, Redshank and Black-tailed Godwit.…

Open marsh grassland with a ditch on the left and a group of people walking away from the...

Meadow birds have a cultural significance in the Netherlands and play a key role in the Dutch ecosystems. Nevertheless, with the rapid decline in…

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On 18 April 2024 a lecture on “Meadow bird protection for Lapwings in East Frisia” took place at the Nature Conservation Station Ems. Joachim Schwane…

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News

News blog

What's new?

Tracking the flyway

Insights into their flyway: How transnational collaboration unlocks information on migratory birds

Restoration of the Mbawar wetland in Senegal

Evaluation of agri-environment schemes in the Netherlands

Documentary on Black-tailed Godwit conservation

ARTE shows powerful film on Black-tailed Godwits, the project and the NLWKN

Project manager Heinrich Belting honoured

Nature Conservation Award from the Haarmann Foundation for Environment and Nature

Web presence for "Godwit Flyway"

Project website launched today

TV report on the Oste estuary

Site managers Hilger Lemke and Jan-Henrik Junge talk about the local bird life

The meadow bird breeding season 2024

News from Lower Saxony’s ground-nesting birds and our transmitter birds

Project area visit to assess the bird habitats at Barnbruch

A collaborative field visit to Barnbruch, Lower Saxony

Two PhD job openings for meadow bird research

Join our meadow bird conservation team

Meadow bird conservation between wet grassland and the tidal area of the Ems

Exchange of experiences at the Nature Conservation Station Ems

Report on meadow bird conservation in the Netherlands

Current status and future perspectives

Review of the "Lapwing Days" at the Nature Conservation Station Ems

Successful events on the bird of the year 2024