Andy Raine - CMS Executive Secretary
Andy Raine - New Executive Secretary of CMS and ASCOBANS
Bonn, 1 June 2026 - Andy Raine has been appointed as Executive Secretary of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), effective Monday, 1 June 2026. In his role, Mr. Raine will also serve as the Executive Secretary of the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas (ASCOBANS).
Bukhara deer, Snow Leopard and Goitered gazelle (jeyran)© Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Governments Endorse a New Work Programme to Protect Central Asia's Shared Land Migratory Species
Government representatives from the wider Central Asian region endorsed a six-year work programme for the Central Asian Mammals Initiative (CAMI). The highly anticipated and comprehensive Work Programme maps and defines activities for thirteen priority transboundary conservation regions that are important for conserving seventeen iconic species of mammals of the region for the first time.
2025/024: Encuesta para las Partes que aplican las decisiones de la COP14 sobre los ecosistemas de pastos marinos
En la 14ª reunión de la Conferencia de las Partes (COP14), se adoptó una resolución y un conjunto de decisiones conexas para reforzar la conservación y la gestión sostenible de los ecosistemas de p
2025/023: Solicitud de apoyo financiero para la COP15 de la CMS
Tal y como se anunció en la Notificación 2025/014, la 15.ª
2025/022: Invitación a la octava reunión del Comité del período de sesiones del Consejo Científico de la CMS (ScC-SC8)
La octava reunión del Comité del período de sesiones del Consejo Científico de la CMS (ScC-SC8) tendrá lugar del 15 al 18 de diciembre de 2025 en los locales de la Secretaría de la
Investing in Biodiversity: Unlocking Greater Returns
The Liaison Group of Biodiversity-related Conventions (BLG), a long-standing network uniting the executive heads of the eight biodiversity-related conventions, met on 21 February 2025 at FAO Headquarters in Rome ahead of the resumed sessions of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP16). The group reaffirmed their collective support to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF).
El tratado de la ONU sobre Vida Silvestre publica nuevos informes sobre la importancia de la conservación liderada por comunidades
Las estrategias de conservación lideradas por comunidades pueden ser fundamentales para la conservación exitosa de especies migratorias, según dos informes clave publicados por la Convención sobre la Conservación de las Especies Migratorias de Animales Silvestres (CMS), un tratado mundial sobre vida silvestre de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas.
Continued Progress on Conservation Measures for Central Asia’s Iconic Migratory Land Species
Government representatives, experts, and civil society organizations gathered to discuss pressing conservation issues for two iconic Central Asian migratory species: the Argali Sheep and the Bukhara Deer. At the 3rd meeting of the Signatories to the CMS’s Memorandum of Understanding concerning the Conservation and Restoration of the Bukhara Deer (Cervus elaphus bactrianus) (Bukhara Deer MOU) and the First Range State Meeting on the Implementation and Revision of the International Single Species Action Plan for the Conservation of the Argali (Ovis ammon), participants agreed upon a number of new measures aimed at improving the conservation status of the two species.
A new Work Programme for the Bukhara Deer for 2025-2032
On 10-11 September 2024, Signatories to the CMS’s Memorandum of Understanding concerning Conservation and Restoration of the Bukhara Deer (Cervus elaphus bactrianus) (Bukhara Deer MOU) met in Almaty, Kazakhstan to review and discuss the progress and challenges in the Bukhara Deer conservation efforts.
траны-подписанты Меморандума о взаимопонимании по сохранению и восстановлению бухарского оленя (Cervus elaphus bactrianus) (МОВ по бухарскому оленю) встретились в Алматы, Казахстан, 10–11 сентября 2024 года, чтобы обсудить прогресс и трудности в сохранении данного вида.
World's Largest Bukhara Deer Population Needs Human Help
The Bukhara deer is a subspecies of the red deer that inhabits riparian forests along desert rivers in central Asia (Tugai forest) and is assessed by the IUCN as vulnerable. In total, there are less than four thousand individuals in the wild, inhabiting four countries. The largest population survives in Uzbekistan, with the largest grouping of the deer inhabiting the Lower Amu Darya Biosphere Reserve (NABR) in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan.