{"id":20424,"date":"2018-02-07T09:49:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T00:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=20424"},"modified":"2018-02-07T09:51:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T00:51:27","slug":"dpr-korea-accedes-to-the-ramsar-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=20424","title":{"rendered":"DPR Korea accedes to the Ramsar Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Birds Korea, February 7th 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

To the background of final preparations for the winter “peace” olympics, the Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands on February 6th welcomed the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea<\/a> (North Korea) as the 170th and latest Contracting Party to the Convention.\u00a0 The Convention will come into force in the DPR Korea on 16 May 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of the long process of accession, the DPR Korea is required to designate at least one internationally important wetland as a Ramsar site. Two wetlands have been selected: the Mundok Migratory Birds Reserve on the west coast, which includes a substantial part of the Chongchon Estuary; and the Sonbong Migratory Birds Reserve in Rason in the far north-east. Both sites are extremely important for migratory waterbirds. Their long-term conservation will thus be extremely important for the conservation of bird-life on the Korean Peninsula and should help to form a solid basis for inter-Korean dialogue on the conservation of national and regional biodiversity.<\/p>\n

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Chongchon Estuary, Mundok, March 2017<\/a> \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n

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Sonbong Migratory Bird Reserve, July 2016<\/a> \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n

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