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34 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 1 (2016-2017)

handle is hein.journals/penv34 and id is 1 raw text is: ARTICLE Migratory Waterbird Conservation at the Flyway Level: Distilling the Added Value of AEWA in Relation to the Ramsar Convention MELISSA LEWIS* I. INTRODUCTION For millennia, the natural phenomenon of bird migration has provided humans with inspiration, sustenance, recreation, and a variety of ecological benefits.i While arguably the most visible group of migratory species, the astonishing distances covered by many migratory birds results in them also being one of the most * PhD Researcher, Tilburg University, the Netherlands; Honorary Research Fellow, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Environmental Law Expert, Technical Committee of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA). The author would like to thank Arie Trouwborst and Jonathan Verschuuren for their comments on drafts of this article. Special thanks are also owed to members of the AEWA Secretariat and Technical Committee (especially Mikko Alhainen, Nicola Crockford, Pierre Defos du Rau, Sergey Dereliev, Evelyn Moloko, Szabolcs Nagy and David Stroud), as well as to Kees Bastmeijer, Gerard Boere, Ed Couzens, Jennifer Dubrulle, Floor Fleurke, Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, Royal Gardner, Tim Jones and Antje Neumann, conversations with whom were enormously valuable in writing this piece. Finally, the author would like to thank the editors of the Pace Environmental Law Review for their patient and thorough editing of the article. All opinions expressed by the author are her own and should not be interpreted as official positions of any of the Agreement's bodies, and any errors or oversights are the sole responsibility of the author. The article is a component of a broader PhD project being undertaken at Tilburg University. 1. See generally ROBERT BOARDMAN, THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF BIRD CONSERVATION: BIODIVERSITY, REGIONALISM AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 1-5 (2006). 1