From the latest newsletter by the Himalayan Advocacy Center. To be in the know about our community space + library for protecting the Himalayas located in scenic Dharamshala, India, subscribe here.
Central Asian Flyway - a path used by birds migrating from the Arctic to the Maldives through Central Asia and India. The flyway action plan was discussed in the latest Convention on Migratory Species meeting last week and member countries including Armenia, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Mongolia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and India decided to formalize an action plan for conserving conservation of migratory birds and their habitats falling on the highway.
As an organization interested in the third pole, our automatic response to these developments was the links such plans create between polar regions of the planet - through words in plans, press releases, news reports and convention texts. This is especially important for our part of the world where regional international environmental agreements are super rare.
New edition out: Recently, we began exploring the possibility of stocking some physical prints of our publications and the entire thought + execution process was, well, dauntingly illuminating - and so we decided to share it with you all (since a big part of this newsletter has been to share snippets of our journey as a nonprofit).