The World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) 2012 campaign team
is excited to announce the release of this year’s
campaign trailer! The two-minute animated video helps
explain this year’s theme Migratory birds and people – together
through time, and is inspired by the
2012 WMBD Poster. It aims
to enhance the viewers’ understanding of migratory
birds and their relevance for mankind.

Throughout time and across cultures humans have relied
on birds, be it to supply food, to deliver messages,
or to serve as symbols of power and prestige. Migratory
birds provide essential ecological benefits and services,
such as pollination and seed dispersal, and the phenomenon
of bird migration is crucial to the web of life. World
Migratory Bird Day 2012 celebrates the cultural, social,
historic, economic and spiritual connections we have
with birds.

The video can be viewed online on the
WMBD website and on the
WMBD YouTube channel. A full
version in English is available as well as versions with
French and Spanish subtitles respectively.

We would like to thank everyone involved in the production
of this trailer, in particular Mr. Dirk Räppold
(website: www.formvorrat.de) who was recruited through
www.onlinevolunteering.org and who dedicated his valuable
time and creativity to the campaign. We would also like
to acknowledge the contribution of our speaker Mr. Oskar
Schlenker, as well as Duonità for
the music used in the trailer.

We hope to underline the message of the campaign with this trailer, and we invite
all stakeholders to make wide use of it in WMBD events and that it will help
spread the word about the campaign online. We also hope
to inspire
others around the world to produce and share videos
of their own World Migratory Bird Day celebrations.

About World Migratory Bird Day

World Migratory Bird Day was initiated in 2006 and
is an annual awareness-raising campaign highlighting
the
need for the protection of migratory birds and their
habitats. World Migratory Bird Day is organized by the
Secretariats of the Convention on the Conservation of
Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) and the Agreement
on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds
(AEWA) – two international wildlife treaties administered
by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – and
a growing number of partners.

For more information please do not hesitate
to contact us:

Mr. Sean Wright

UNEP/CMS Secretariat

Tel: +49 (0)228 815 2480

Fax: +49 (0)228 815 2449

E-mail: contact@worldmigratorybirdday.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/worldmigratorybirdday

About Online Volunteers

The Online
Volunteering service
is operated by the United Nations Volunteers (UNV).
It is an online platform which connects development organizations
directly with thousands
of online volunteers who can provide services and advice
over the internet.