A Rocha International News, Issue 37: January 2005

Lima's urban wetlands

Oscar González, President of Grupo Aves del Peru and leader of A Rocha Peru's Initiative Group, reports on the launch conference of A Rocha Peru and their plans for the future. more >>

Africa's first waterbird ringing course held at Mwamba

Mwamba - A Rocha Kenya's field study centre on the coast at Watamu - was the perfect venue for the first waterbird ringing training course to be held in Africa, in September 2004. Staying at Mwamba gave the participants easy access to seasonal wetlands just inland from Malindi and nearby Mida Creek,­ a tidal inlet classed as an Important Bird Area, where sixty-five aquatic bird species are regularly recorded, with numbers reaching six thousand birds in the northern winter. more >>

A Rocha in the Canadian prairies

The trend for A Rocha projects to multiply across the globe like bunnies in spring seems to be playing true in Canada as well. Having just celebrated the first anniversary of operations at Canada's first field study centre on the west coast of British Columbia, we are responding to a unique opportunity to participate in an exciting project in the Canadian prairies. more >>

A Rocha International

Co-ordinating A Rocha's activities around the world more >>

Special species

... a flash of chocolate with a touch of cream, shrieking and flying fast just inches above the water, stopping and bobbing on boulders, dancing to the swirl of the rushing waters: that elusive bird - the Dipper. more >>

Two new International Trustees (part 2)

In the October issue of A Rocha International News we introduced Stella Simiyu, a Kenyan botanist who joined the Board of International Trustees in July. Now we'd like you to meet our other new Trustee, Matthew Buresch. Matthew and Stella join Matthias Stiefel (Switzerland), Alfredo Abreu (Portugal), Paul Jeanson (France), Hilary Marlow, Prof Sir Ghillean Prance, John Smiley and Dr Simon Stuart (UK) and Dr Bihini Won wa Musiti (Democratic Republic of Congo). more >>

A Rocha at the World Conservation Congress

The A Rocha team at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Bangkok joined six thousand delegates from one hundred sixty countries for ten days of intensive discussion and meetings during which the crisis facing wildlife around the world was confirmed by nearly every organisation, whether governmental or NGO. more >>