Protecting pathways for migratory birds and flyways across Asia

The routes followed by migratory birds on their journeys between their breeding and wintering places are known as flyways. Three migratory flyways that cross Asia are West Pacific, East-Asian Australasian, and the West Asian flyways.

To ensure the habitat of these migratory birds, BirdLife works closely within the East-Asian Australasian Flyway (EAAF), as this flyway covers the majority of Asian partner-countries. BirdLife partners in countries and territories along the world’s great flyways are taking action by protecting chains of Important Bird Area (IBAs) used as feeding and resting sites by migratory birds. Working with governments, developers and funding agencies to reduce the impacts of infrastructure projects, such as windfarms and power distribution networks, on migratory birds is being done by the organization.