Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, February 17th 2015 Once common, now globally Endangered: Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola, May 2014© Nial Moores An important paper by Ding Li Yong et al. (2015), officially published next month, provides a very useful overview … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, February 13th 2015. Any meaningful discussion on tidal-flat conservation in the Republic of Korea (and elsewhere) needs to be based on best information. At the very least, this best information needs to include the area … read more
WantChina Times 2014-10-27 Unregulated land reclamation has caused serious coastal erosion across the intertidal zones of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, threatening flocks of migratory birds and local environmental conditions, not to mention local residents’ daily lives, Shangahi’s China … read more
Hankyoreh Mar.24,2014 Speaking on hugely expensive project, Hans Helmut Bernhart says, “You can’t design nature, and you shouldn’t try” By Kim Jeong-su, environment correspondent Hans Helmut Bernhart, a professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, is an expert … read more
2015 맹금류 양서류 워크숍 안내 2015. 2. 23~24. 장소: 고성 무지돌이 마을 독수리와 양서류에 관심이 많으신 분들 많은 참석 부탁드립니다. read more
Survey report by Jason Loghry with Lee Keesan, Choi Su-Yeon and Mike Friel On Saturday, a team of us from Birds Korea surveyed the Southeast River for Scaly-sided Merganser. This is the same river that we monitored in the winter of … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger, Hanns Seidel Foundation (Korea), February 2, 2015 Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus, Goseong County @ Bernhard Seliger For a long time, the lagoons in Goseong County on the Korean East coast were famous wetlands for wintering Whooper Swans … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, January 28th Part of the CCZ, Cheorwon County, December 2013 @ Birds Korea. Most of this area was “under construction” in January 2015 The demilitarized zone (DMZ) or inner Korean border is often portrayed as … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, January 28th 2015 There still seems to be a widespread belief that conservation is somehow anti-development and almost a betrayal of our species, preventing people from benefitting from the “new” global wealth. This is far from true, … read more
Good to see the Vancouver Sun print a sensible opinion piece on Poultry Flu outbreaks. Although the main focus of the December 9th article is on poultry-farming in the Fraser Valley in Canada, the piece could almost just as well … read more