(Dr. Bernhard Seliger, Hanns-Seidel-Foundation and Birds Korea) Whenever birds return to Korea in the winter (or summer) season, they frequently find their habitat shrunken or gone away. This is one factor (not the only one, fortunately) behind the success of … read more
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Seliger – Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi, Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea and Birds Korea Bird protection is a complicated interplay of more species-oriented protection (for example, protection against illegal hunting or the use of harmful chemicals) and more habitat-oriented … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger and Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi, Hanns Seidel Foundation and Birds Korea, with John MacKinnon, Jennifer George and Yoonjae Bae, both EAAFP. The late summer period along the Han River Estuary is a not so easy time to observe … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Hanns Seidel Foundation, Birds Korea) A pleasant make-up holiday spent in Paju. Unfortunately, the rapid destruction of the pleasant rice-field area below Odusan progresses, with construction machines everywhere building a huge new dyke, presumably for a road … read more
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Seliger, Hanns Seidel Foundation / Birds Korea In dismal weather conditions, bird watching did not work as planned… the first day, there was fast and continuous rain with strong gusts of wind, the second day, rain and … read more
The 11th Meeting of Partners of the East Asian Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) took place in Brisbane, Australia, from March 12-17. The Korean Peninsula is centered in the middle of the flyway, where annually around 50 million birds migrate, and … read more
Baeksasil Valley, bordering Buam-dong and Pyeongchang-dong in Seoul, is not only famous as a summer retreat in the 19th century, with some remaining ruins, but also as a protected area, in particular due to Korean salamanders living around the clear … read more
Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi, Dr. Bernhard Seliger (both Hanns Seidel Foundation, Birds Korea), and Eunjeong Lee, Eunjeong Kim, Insook Jeon, Donguk Han (EcoKorea), Maddie Joyce (Royal Holloway, University of London) Thanks to EcoKorea we were able to enter the CCZ in … read more
Birds News by Bernhard Seliger A not-yet-so-cold post-Seollal day in Cheolwon started with great views of the nature rising from mists in the winter sun and trumpeting cranes overhead, on their way from roosts in the DMZ to the rice paddies … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation, Birds Korea) On December 28 and 29, long walks in Gyeongpo lake and wetland park, Gangneung, as well as a (unfortunately much too short) trip to Daegwallyong Samyang Farm, a combined dairy and wind farm at … read more