{"id":7119,"date":"2012-12-12T13:53:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T04:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=7119"},"modified":"2012-12-12T13:53:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T04:53:05","slug":"market-trade-is-fuelling-killing-of-birds-in-northern-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=7119","title":{"rendered":"Market trade is fuelling killing of birds in Northern China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nial Moores, December 12th 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A very good article by Feng Yongfeng on \u201cChinadialogue\u201d on December 10th:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/5465-Market-trade-is-fuelling-the-killing-of-migratory-birds-in-Northern-China\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/5465-Market-trade-is-fuelling-the-killing-of-migratory-birds-in-Northern-China<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the article looks at illegal hunting and declines in bird populations due to habitat loss (including loss of intertidal wetlands in the ROK), there is a note of optimism and perhaps even encouragement for many ornithologists and birdwatchers in East Asia:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZhang Zhengwang, secretary-general of the China Ornithological Society and a professor at Beijing Normal University, says that China\u2019s many bird-watching groups are becoming an important force in bird conservation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Excellent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nial Moores, December 12th 2012 A very good article by Feng Yongfeng on \u201cChinadialogue\u201d on December 10th: http:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/5465-Market-trade-is-fuelling-the-killing-of-migratory-birds-in-Northern-China While the article looks at illegal hunting and declines in bird populations due to habitat loss (including loss of intertidal wetlands in &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=7119\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[487,63,489,488,486],"class_list":["post-7119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","tag-bird-decline","tag-china","tag-chinadialogue","tag-death","tag-market-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7119"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7126,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions\/7126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}