Contacts: Spike Millington, Vice President – Asia Program, 608-356-9462 ext. 140 and Claire Mirande, Grants Officer – Asia Program, 608-356-9462 ext. 122 Ulan Bator, Mongolia – Following the designation of… Continue reading Historic Agreement Signed to Manage Vital Grasslands and Wetlands in the Khurk-Khuiten Nature Reserve of Mongolia
Category: Demoiselle Crane
New Crane Virtual Backgrounds – Video Backgrounds Now Available!
Share your love of cranes worldwide and delight your coworkers by using these exclusive International Crane Foundation virtual backgrounds.
Cranes and Avian Influenza Update
The unprecedented loss of up to 8,000 Eurasian cranes to an H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in Israel’s Hula Valley in December 2021, was a tragic example of the potential for this virus to sicken wild birds, and now cranes in particular.
In the News – August 2021
Our monthly summary of media stories highlighting the International Crane Foundation’s global programs.
Using Art to Share Their Story
We partnered with the Center for East Asian-Australasian Flyway Studies, Huatai Securities and the environmental education non-profit organization Roots and Shoots to organize a poster contest featuring cranes found in the Yangtze River basin.
Cranes – Messenger of Peace Art Contest Creating Awareness in China
If a picture is worth a thousand words, an image of a crane is visual poetry.
Mongolia Protects Core Breeding Area for Declining White-naped Cranes
The Government of Mongolia recently designated core breeding habitat for White-naped Cranes as a national-level nature reserve, a vital step in increasing reproduction in the rapidly-declining Western population of this threatened species.
Year of the Cranes – Do you know all the crane species in East Asia?
There are nine species of cranes found in the East Asia Flyway. Do you know them all?
The Value of Human Connectivity for Crane Conservation
In our current state of lockdown, we have an opportunity to link to each other within and across countries and to raise the awareness and visibility of the connections among cranes, wetlands and people.
Technology Upgrades Are for the Birds
With support from an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant, our Crane Conservation Department recently completed a data migration of their animal record-keeping system from an aging custom-built database to ZIMS – Zoological Information Management System, a web-based database program managed by Species360.