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
Dr. Bernhard Seliger, Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea, 11-15 January 2017 Approximately 90% of Korean bird species are migratory; therefore, the protection of habitat along the migratory routes to the north and south of Korea and on the whole of … read more
Jason Loghry, Dec 28, 2016 South Korea to Create Offshore Wind Farm in Saemangeum Area “The government said on Monday that it will spend 440 billion won to build an offshore wind farm at Saemangeum Lake and the Saemanguem Industrial … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, October 13th 2016 There were (at least) three important meetings held in September 2016 that were of direct relevance to conservation of the Yellow Sea’s endangered tidal flats: (1) in the DPRK, a seminar … read more