14 June 2010: Delegates at the seventh Meeting of Signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Siberian Crane, which was developed under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), endorsed a new conservation plan for the critically endangered Siberian Crane at its 10-12 June 2010 meeting in Bonn, Germany. The new plan covers the Crane’s entire range and migration routes. The meeting also designated two new sites as part of the West and Central Asian Site Network, in recognition of their importance for migratory waterbirds and potential for the Siberian Crane. [CMS press release]