Wetlands play a critical role in maintaining biodiversity, ecosystem services such as disaster risk reduction and climate mitigation, and ecological connectivity for migratory birds. However, many important wetlands lack adequate management due to limited capacity and knowledge. To address this, the project focused on two core objectives:

1. Capacity Building on Wetland Management: Enhancing the capacity of wetland site managers, government officials, and conservation practitioners in Southeast Asia for effective wetland and migratory waterbird conservation along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway through targeted training on essential management skills, internationally-recognised tools, Nature-based Solutions (NbS), and innovative technologies such as IoT-based wetland management systems.
2. Strengthened Networking and Regional Knowledge Exchange: Promoting regional communication, collaboration, and continuity of knowledge exchange across wetland sites along the Flyway through in-person training workshops, interactive post-training webinars, and active engagement with ASEAN Flyway Network (AFN) and EAAFP Flyway Site Network.

Co-organised by WWF-Hong Kong and the AFN, with support from the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve of the National Parks Board, Singapore (the current chair of the AFN) and expert partners, two five-day “train-the-trainers” workshops were conducted at Mai Po Nature Reserve in Hong Kong SAR, a Wetland of International Importance and recipient of the Wetland Link International Gold Star Award for best practice, from 12 to 16 January 2026 and from 10 to 14 March 2026, respectively.