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 : Enquête auprès des Parties mettant en œuvre les décisions de la COP14 sur les écosystèmes d'herbiers marins
Lors de la 14e réunion de la Conférence des Parties (COP14), une résolution et une série de décisions connexes ont été adoptées afin de renforcer la conservation et la gestion durable des écosystèm
2025/023 : Appel à soutien financier pour la COP15 de la CMS
Comme annoncé dans la notification 2025/014, la 15e réunion de la Conférence des Parties (COP15)
2025/022 : Invitation à la huitième réunion du Comité de session du Conseil scientifique de la CMS (ScC-SC8)
La huitième réunion du Comité de session du Conseil scientifique de la CMS (ScC-SC8) aura lieu du 15 au 18 décembre 2025 dans les locaux du Secrétariat de la CMS, Platz der Vereint
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).
Le traité des Nations Unies sur les espèces sauvages publie de nouveaux rapports sur l'importance de la conservation menée par les communautés
Selon deux rapports importants publiés par la Convention sur la conservation des espèces migratrices appartenant à la faune sauvage (CMS), un traité mondial des Nations Unies sur les espèces sauvages, les stratégies de conservation menées par les communautés peuvent être déterminantes pour garantir la conservation des espèces migratrices.
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.