Author Archives: Nial Moores

Sep22026

Counts of Scaly-sided Merganser in the Yeoncheon Imjin River Flyway Network Site

Conservation

Dr Nial Moores, National Director, Birds Korea

In 2025, Birds Korea successfully applied for a small grant from the EAAFP, to help support our counts of the globally Endangered Scaly-sided Merganser 호사비오리 along the Imjin River in Yeoncheon.

The small grant was used (1) to fund a high-frequency of counts of Scaly-sided Merganser, especially along 21km of the Imjin River in Yeoncheon County between October 2025 and April 2026; (2) to produce designs for signboards that could help to explain about this remarkable species and the river they depend on; and (3) to support the writing of a report that could present the count data.

The EAAFP has now posted a short article about our work for the small grant here; together with an Appendix, which is our much more detailed report on five-years of counts of Scaly-sided Merganser (Moores et al. 2026), that you can download below:

EAAFP Small Grant Report- August 2026Download

Reference

Moores, N., Baek S-K, Lee S-Y & Jang R. 2026.  Improving the conservation status of the Scaly-sided Merganser along the Imjin River, Republic of Korea. EAAFP Small Grant report (August 2026)

Restoration of Habitat of the Eastern Taiga Bean Goose 큰부리큰기러기 in Busan: April Update

Dr Nial Moores, National Director, Birds Korea Following sixteen months of meetings, research (on birds through the year and on invertebrates in the summer last year), seed collection and preparation, and finally with receipt of all the administrative and legal … read more

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제20차 연천 한‧일 습지 포럼 연천에서 열리다

글: 백승광 (새와 생명의 터 임진-한탄강 지역 대표) 2008년, 개발로 빠르게 사라져 가던 습지를 지키기 위해 한국과 일본의 시민사회가 함께 출범시킨 한‧일 습지 네트워크가 올해로 20주년을 맞았습니다. 그리고 그 20주년 워크숍이 올해 연천에서 열렸습니다. 연천은 이미 국제 자연보전 체계 안에서 … read more

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