On this page you will find a number of useful resources and documents relating to the the Wings Over Wetlands (WOW) Project Flyways Training Kit. The resources on this page can be used free of charge and new resources are added by the WOW Training and Capacity Building team as they become available.
Hardcopy Versions of the Flyway Training Kit
Copies of the Flyway Training Kit (in English language) are available for purchase through Wetlands International by contacting:
Umberto Gallo-Orsi, Wetlands International WOW Project Coordinator, +39 0141 85 63 63, Umberto.Gallo-Orsi@wetlands.org
The Wings Over Wetlands (WOW) Project:
The Wings Over Wetlands (WOW) UNEP-GEF African-Eurasian Flyways Project has been funded by The GEF, the German Government, UNEP-AEWA and many other donors. The project has been a joint effort between UNEP-GEF, Wetlands International, BirdLife International, UNEP-AEWA, the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, UNOPS, UNEP-WCMC and a range of other local partners along the African- Eurasian flyways.
The area covered by the initiative includes all 118 Range States of the UNEP-administered African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement, covering all of Africa, all of Europe, south-west Asia (including the Middle East and Central Asian States), Greenland and the Canadian Archipelago.
For more information on the WOW project please visit: www.wingsoverwetlands.org
Or download our latest Project Newsletter: Flyway Conservation at Work - Across Africa and Eurasia which also contains further information on the WOW Flyway Training Programme & Flyway Training Kit.
Bonn, 26 October 2010 - The WOW Flyway Training Kit (FTK), a one-of-a-kind resource in flyway-scale conservation, is making quite an impact on some academic institutions in Africa and Eurasia. Originally intended to build professional capacity to plan, implement, monitor and engage in effective flyway-scale conservation of migratory waterbirds and wetland habitats, the modules are being used by some academic institutions as part of their own training programmes.
Nairobi, 14 May 2010 - The Wings Over Wetlands (WOW) project - the largest international wetland and waterbird conservation initiative in the African-Eurasian region – today launched the innovative Flyway Training Kit at a special side event presentation during the fourteenth meeting of the CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-14) in the UNEP Premises, Nairobi, Kenya.