새와 생명의 터 : 넓적부리도요 조사
새와 생명의 터 넓적부리도요 조사단은 9월 27일, 낙동하구 조사 직후, 2011년 9월 30일부터 10월 3일까지 새만금과 금강 하구 지역에서 조사를 실시 중이며 다시 10월 4일부터 10월 6일까지 다시 낙동강 하구를 조사할 것입니다. 이번 조사의 목표는 넓적부리도요 섭식 생태(2012년 실시 계획) 를 보다 자세히 연구하기 … read more
Animal Welfare
Feeding Spoon-billed Sandpipers
Many questions remain about the feeding ecology of the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper: Why does this species have such a bill-shape and how does it use its bill? What does it feed on? A selection of youtube clips of birds … read more
Conservation Headlines, September 2011
Some of this month’s conservation news in the ROK: Members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature are holding a Regional Conservation Forum at Songdo Convention Center from Sept. 27-30. Ashok Khosla, president of the … read more
SAVE International: “Green” New Deal Projects Threaten Korea’s Rivers and Tidal Flats
Check out SAVE International’s new article in the September 2011 World Rivers Review about the threat of “Green Growth” projects. SAVE discusses the highly problematic engineering scheme, The Four Major Rivers Restoration Project, as well as the “Not-So-Green” construction of 6 Tidal Power Plants … read more
“Nature Studies by Michael McCarthy: Precious estuaries we must protect”
Here is a fantastic article taken from The Independent, written by one of Britain’s leading writers on the environment and the natural world, and the longstanding Environment Editor of The Independent, Michael McCartney. You can read more at The Independent, … read more
Natural Restoration is the Key
Here is some of an article written for The Korea Times, by local conservationist and fellow Birds Korean, Tim Edelsten : “Anyone who has spent time in the Korean countryside over the past decade, as I have, knows that … read more
First Crested Tern found in 94 years
Big news from Jeju Weekly! Thanks Matt Poll! (By Kim Dae Young, Jeju Ilbo reporter. Translated by Kim Jung Lim) “The Ministry of Environment announced on July 4 that Crested Terns, birds that usually inhabit Southeast Asia, were found on … read more
BirdLife Species Champions strike gold in Chukotka
Excellent news from BirdLife International on July 11, 2011 by Martin Fowlie Spoon-billed Sandpiper (James Gilroy) “Heritage Expeditions – a BirdLife Species Champion supporting Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservation through the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme – struck gold this week when they, and … read more
Republic of Korea designates two Wetland Conservation Areas
On April 21, the Ministry of Environment registered Ungok Wetland, located in Gochang, of North Jeolla Province, and Dongbaekdongsan, located in the Jeju-do Province with the secretariat of the Ramsar Convention, which has designated them as Wetland Conservation Sites. The … read more
279 White-faced (Swinhoe’s) Plovers in China
The debate may still be ongoing in some circles whether the ‘White-faced Plovers’ first noted in Malaysia, Singapore etc are a full species or a form of Kentish Plover (though the consensus is that they are indeed a rare and … read more