We are proud to share that Lyndon represented BlueGreen Labs at this year’s COP17 - the UN’s biodiversity conference: the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity - in Yerevan, Armenia. Lyndon has been working on swift tracking studies for over a decade, collaborating with the Beijing Swift Project as one of the cornerstone projects. This project is a collaboration between European and Chinese scientists to track the Beijing Swift, with the swift taking the center stage as a species that spans continents crossing Beijing to southern Africa and back.
Lyndon was invited to present the results of the ongoing Beijing Swift Project at the China Pavilion at COP17, a day that was entirely dedicated to Beijing’s biodiversity. This celebrates the hard work by Lyndon and BlueGreen Labs going into this project, for us and so many people involved. The project itself has been led by the China Birdwatching Society, the Beijing Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center and the Beijing Academy of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, with the support of scientists from Europe. Lyndon serves as a swift and ornithology expert on the project, taking active roles in data collection, workshops, and analysing and interpreting results, all guiding our understanding of the migration strategies of the Eastern Common Swift (Apus apus pekinensis), between Beijing, China and Africa.
The days following his main presentation at the China Pavilion, Lyndon presented his work in more technical detail in the Urban Zone. In this more informal setting, there was time to get into the finer details of swift migration patterns and have fruitful discussions with the attendees.
A last day took the team outside for a day of birdwatching, and a hands-on workshop with students and teachers alike from the photography department of Tumo Center for Creative Technologies, an Armenian showcase project.
We would like to thank the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to Armenia, Eric De Muynck, for inviting and hosting Lyndon. And of course we are delighted to continue our work with the Beijing Swift Project, and are grateful to be part of this team!
