Dear friends and colleagues,
I understand you may all be quite busy as the year ends. But this request is very important as we move towards the new year.
We are planning to try to put together information on highlights or key achievements of the BirdLife Asia Partnership in the coming new year. BirdLife Asia Council also would like the BirdLife Asia secretariat to work on improving our communications within the partnership as well as outside thereby increasing the profile of BirdLife in the region. To provide inputs to these communications effort, may I request you to send us maximum 2 stories (with maximum 1200 words each) per country/territory or per programme on what your key achievements (conservation or otherwise) are for 2013 or what you believe were the highlights for 2013 for your organization or the BirdLife Asia Partnership. We also hope you can share with us good photos to use to illustrate your inputs and provide some visual representation of what you refer to in your reports. We will hope to produce materials for us to use in promoting BirdLife in the region in 2014. These stories will be most helpful.
Joyce and/or Celine will be following up with you in early January and we would be happy to share your news stories more widely. Many thanks for your kind support and cooperation on this matter. Do let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
For those of you celebrating this holiday season, do have a wonderful holiday and new year.