2017: A Turning Point For China’s Biodiversity? Terry Townshend, Birding Beijing, January 3rd 2018 This article has been reproduced here in full, with the author’s permission, to help reassure everyone who cares for conservation that progress really can be made… 2017 … read more
Lush Life Radio: Turning Point Have a listen to Lush Life Radio, as Dr Nial Moores, conservationist and director of Birds Korea, answers the question: “What was the one decision or conversation that changed your life forever?” read more
Last Murmurations of a Destroyed Wetland In 2006, the Saemangeum seawall strangled life from South Korea’s largest and most ecologically dynamic mudflat, and contributed to critical declines for several of our flyway’s migratory shorebird species. Find out what is happening … read more
Last weekend I had the pleasure of giving a 20-minute talk at the Congrès Québec Oiseaux 2017 in Victoriaville, Québec. The talk, which was given in (rusty) French, started with a sketch of what it’s like to live and bird … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, September 18th 2017 Workshop attendees © Hanns Seidel Foundation (Korea) Even as the world shudders from one awful news item after another about missile launches and nuclear tests and retaliatory threats of fire … read more
Jason Loghry, Aug 24 Tomorrow morning, I’m heading back to the Texas coast. I was only here a few months this time, but I really enjoyed my stay as I was able to spend a lot of my time volunteering … read more
Case for Continuing to List Relict Gull as Vulnerable Nial Moores, Birds Korea, June 8th 2017 Effective bird and habitat conservation largely depends on identifying priorities and on taking the most appropriate strategic steps to achieve long-term goals. As part … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea An article published in Nature Communications on 13th April this year deserves very wide reading and frequent citation. Entitled, “Rapid population decline in migratory shorebirds relying on Yellow Sea tidal mudflats as stopover sites” the … read more
“The modern, rational human being, the one that knows it once descended from animals but along the way turned into something completely different, did not create cities. They created us. And it’s only chauvinism that lets us imagine that we … read more
20 Great Knot were recorded in the UAE in January (last month), including one banded individual (E1), which was banded in July on the western Kamchatka peninsula. The full article: The sighting of a great knot in Umm Al Quwain … read more