인천조력발전소 건설계획 -지속 불가능한 발전의 예
인천 조력발전을 추진하고자 ㈜한국수력원자력발전소(이하 ‘한수원’)와 ㈜에코아이가 작성한 66쪽 분량의 제안서에서 발췌한 내용으로 ‘새와 생명의 터’(조류와 서식지 보전활동을 통해 지속가능한 발전을 위해 노력하는 단체)[2]는 인천 조력발전이 생태계에 미치는 영향 및 다음의 일부 문제를 예측할 수 있다. 국내 천연 조간대 습지의 … read more
Conservation
IUCN (세계자연보전연맹)세계보전총회: 동아시아 조간대 습지 현황
IUCN (세계 자연 보전 연맹)세계보전총회: 동아시아 조간대 습지 현황 IUCN 인터넷 뉴스레터로부터 IUCN SSC(종 생존 위원회) 회원들에게: 2011년 12월 2일 조간대 습지의 보전 현황에 대한 정보 요청 건 동아시아 및 동남아시아에 위치한 조간대 갯벌과 관련 서식지, 특히 진흙과 모래 갯벌의 … read more
IUCN World Conservation Congress: Status of East Asian Intertidal Wetlands
From the IUCN e-Newsletter to IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Members: December 2nd 2011 Request for information on the conservation status of intertidal wetlands The loss of intertidal flats and associated habitats, especially mud and sand flats, in East and … read more
Pairing and Parenthood on the Tundra
A lot more interesting stuff on the critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Check out the Autumn Issue of Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s newsletter: BirdScope. They’ve published a short but sweet article of observations made by Gerrit Vyn, a producer in Cornell’s … read more
Incheon Tidal Power Plant: An Opportunity to Comment
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change website is presently offering people an opportunity to post their comments on the green credentials (or otherwise) of a massive tidal power plant (area: 196km2) in Incheon, ROK. This tidal power plant … read more
Mark Barter, Champion of Yellow Sea Conservation: a Tribute
Mark Barter at the Shortlands Wetlands Centre in Australia (2007), with “Nicky” Yang Hong-Yan (foreground) – now a lead researcher in the Bohai Bay (See the Blueprint, pp. 118-121). Copyright Nial Moores/Birds Korea It is with much sadness that … read more
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