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HSF’s Side Event on Glaciers and Migratory Birds Highlights Urgent Climate-Biodiversity Nexus

Group-photo-with-Mumba-Ramsar Group photo with Dr. Musonda Mumba, Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

As part of the 2025 High-Level International Conference on Glaciers' Preservation, the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) Korea co-hosted a high-level side event titled “Glaciers, the 3rd Pole and the Central Asian Flyway of Migratory Birds” on 29 May 2025. The session brought urgent attention to the accelerating climate and ecological threats faced by the glacier-fed ecosystems of the Pamir Mountains, a critical segment of the Central Asian Flyway (CAF). Held at the Rumi Hotel in Dushanbe, the event convened a diverse group of regional experts, conservation leaders, and institutional partners, including the Central Asian Conservation Network, Ramsar Regional Initiative for Central Asia, and the East Asian–Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP). Often referred to as the “Third Pole,” the Pamir and surrounding mountain...

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