Draft Programme Adriatic Flyway Conference – 29.01.2008

Opening Ceremony of the Adriatic Flyway Conference

(with simultaneous translation in Albanian, English and Montenegrin languages)

Date: 14. April 2009

Time: 17.00 – 21.30

Location: Ulcinj City Hall
Chair: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Vogtmann, President of EuroNatur
Welcome at the Entrance: Salt from Solana Ulcinj and Bread

17.00 Folklore Group Ulcinj
17.15 Opening Addresses to the Adriatic Flyway Conference

• Mayor of Ulcinj
• Minister of Tourism and Environment, Montenegro (to be confirmed)
• Minster of Environment, Albania (to be confirmed)
• Office for Sustainable Development, Montenegro

18.00 Connecting the Adriatic Sea with the Barents Sea: The European Green Belt

• German Ambassador: 20 Years Fall of the Berlin Wall
• Dr. Uwe Riecken, German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation: 20 Years European Green Belt - Borders separate. Nature unites! (to be confirmed)

18.20 Folklore Group Ulcinj
 
18.30 The Adriatic Flyway
• Martin Schneider-Jacoby, EuroNatur
19.00 International Importance of the Adriatic Flyway Protection

• Tobias Salathé, Ramsar Convention – Wetland Conservation
• Bert Lenten, Bonn Convention AEWA – African Eurasian Waterfowl Agreement
• Hervé Lethiér, Council of Europe – EMERALD Network
• Fritz Hirt, BirdLife International - The BirdLife Flyway Campaign

19.30 Folklore Group Ulcinj

19.30 Reception

• Information
• Book stands (Solana Ulcinj, leaflets), Information on Bojana Delta and Skadar Lake, Handicraft from the region (AL – ME)
• Buffet
• Local products: Bread, Wine, Olives, Cheese, Fish
• Tourism offers

20.30 Documentary Film: Ambassadors of Montenegro
(to be confirmed)

Kawka Production of Slovenia, DOPPS Birdlife of Slovenia, Digital Studio, Slak d.o.o. Slovenia, RTV Slovenia and the Centre for the Protection and Research of Birds of Montenegro (to be confirmed)

http://www.ambassadorsofmontenegro.com/
 
Draft Programme of the Adriatic Flyway Conference

- Conference fee 50 € -

Location: Hotel Mediteran, Ulcinj

15. April 2009
05.00 Early Morning excursion – Bird Watching in Bojana-Buna Delta
Plenary Session – Flyway Management

09.00 Nicky Petkov, PhD, Wetlands International
• “Wings over Wetlands:
The Importance of the Black Sea and Mediterranean Flyway”

09.45 Joost Brouwer, PhD,
Brouwer Environmental and Agricultural Consultancy
• “Value of protecting Birds along their entire Flyway”

10.30 Coffee Break

11.15 Juan G. Navedo, PhD, Grupo de Investigación en Biología de la Conservación, Área de Zoología, Universidad de Extremadura
• “The role of a Single Stopover for the Conservation of an endangered Migratory Waterbird Population”

12.30 Mike Smart & Hichem Azafzaf, BirdLife Tunisia
• “The far southern end of the Adriatic flyway: important wintering sites in North and sub-Saharan Africa”

13.15 Lunch

15.00 Working Groups (in prep.)

• Flyway Management
• Wetland inventories Ecological Networks
• EMERALD Sites
• Important Bird Areas
• Critical Sites Network
• Monitoring Migration over the Adriatic Sea
• Bird Watching Tourism

Alternative Option: Excursions to the Bojana-Buna Delta (Velika Plaza, Ada, Solana, Ulcinj, Shasko Jezero, Bojana-Buna River)

20.00 Film Sessions
 
16. April 2009

05.00 Early Morning excursion – Bird Watching in Bojana-Buna Delta
Plenary Session – Adriatic Flyway and Priority Wetlands

09.00 Ulrich Schwarz, PhD, Fluvius
• „Habitats in the Priority Wetlands of the Adriatic Flyway“

09.45 Borut Stumberger, Dr. vet., EuroNatur, and
Peter Sackl, PhD, Landesmuseum Johanneum
• „Bird Monitoring at the Adriatic Flyway“

10.30 Coffee Break

11.45 Francesca Antonelli, PhD, WWF MedPo
• “Threatened Priority Wetlands and Basin Management
in the Dinaric Arc”

12.30 Martin Schneider-Jacoby, PhD, EuroNatur
• „Bird Hunting along the Adriatic Flyway and in the Dinaric Arc“

13.15 Lunch
15.00 Working Groups (in prep.)
• Ringing and Recoveries
• Wetlands and Basin Management
• Management Planning
• Bird Hunting and Bird Crime (Examples and best practice)
• Wind Power
• “Leave no Trace” (Tourism)

Alternative Option: Excursions to the Bojana-Buna Delta (Velika Plaza, Ada, Solana, Ulcinj, Shasko Jezero, Bojana-Buna River)

20.00 Film Sessions

17. April 2009

08.00 Excursion to the Albanian side of Lake Skadar
and the Bojana-Buna Delta

- Excursion fee 50 € -

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