香港觀鳥會亞洲自然保育基金
背景
香港的野鳥物種中有約百分之八十會遷徙，要保育牠們除了要保護牠們在香港的生存環境外，保育在牠們遷徙航道上的其他地方同樣重要。基於保育這些鳥類的重要性，香港觀鳥會在1999年成立了｢中國自然保育基金」，收集會員和支持者的捐款，以小額資助方式支持內地學者及鳥友進行觀鳥推廣和鳥類研究項目，保育中國的鳥類。至2018年｢中國自然保育基金」已資助超過50個不同類型的項目，當中包括一些針對極度瀕危的鳥種如青頭潛鴨和中華鳳頭燕鷗等保育項目，以及鳥會籌建和觀鳥領隊培訓等能力建設項目，促進了中國內地的鳥類保育。詳情可參考以往資助項目的報告。
香港觀鳥會亞洲自然保育基金
為進一步為亞洲鳥類保育提供支持，香港觀鳥會在2019把「中國自然保育基金」易名為「香港觀鳥會亞洲自然保育基金」，支持和促進亞洲鳥類保育工作。基金會資助亞洲地區內和鳥類保護有關的研究、監測、教育和能力建設工作，並會優先考慮對香港鳥類有直接或間接影響，或協助有關國家實現愛知生物多樣性目標並實施其行動計劃的保育項目。
基金會在每年五月左右接受申請。所有申請會由「香港觀鳥會亞洲自然保育基金」委員會審批。
基金款項全數來自香港觀鳥會會員和支持者的捐款，如果你希望支持我們基金的工作，請按此。
HKBWS Asia Conservation Fund
Background
About 80% of the wild bird species in Hong Kong are migratory. To conserve these species effectively, we need to conserve their habitats in Hong Kong as well as the other places they use on their migratory routes. Because of the conservation importance of these birds, the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society (HKBWS), HKBWS set up the “China Conservation Fund”, by collecting donations from HKBWS members and supporters, the fund provides small grants for academics and bird-watchers in Mainland China to do projects on bird watching promotion and bird researches, in order to conserve the Chinese birds. Up to 2018, HKBWS China Conservation Fund has supported more than 50 projects of different types, such as conservation projects towards critically-endangered Baer’s Pochard and Chinese Crested Tern, setting up of bird-watching society and capacity building for bird watching guides. All these projects contributed to bird conservation in Mainland China.
To provide support towards bird conservation in a wider region, HKBWS transformed the ‘China Conservation Fund’ into ‘HKBWS Asia Conservation fund’ in 2019 to further facilitate bird conservation in Asia. The fund supports research, monitoring, education and capacity-building for bird conservation in the region, with a higher priority given to i) projects which target species that occur in Hong Kong or on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway; and ii) project(s) that assist the relevant country in meeting Aichi Biodiversity Targets and implementing its action plan.
The fund opens for application in around May every year. All applications will be reviewed by the HKBWS Asia Conservation Fund committee.
Funds are from donations of members and supporters of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society. If you wish to support our fund, please click here.
