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Training for Monitoring Spoonbill Sandpiper in the Gulf of Mottama

Grantee Name: Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association

Hotspot
Indo-Burma
Location
Myanmar
Amount
$17,869
Dates
Jul 2014 – May 2015
Keywords
Education, Hunting, Migratory species, Monitoring and evaluation, Ramsar site

Improve conservation of the spoon-billed sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus) and other threatened shorebirds in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar, by building the capacity of four local community-based conservation groups to monitor bird populations, and implementing conservation education and other outreach activities in the nearby communities.

Strategic Direction :

8 Strengthen the capacity of civil society to work on biodiversity, communities and livelihoods at regional, national, local and grassroots levels

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