First eleven Scaly-sided Mergansers hatched in China and 1000th in Russia
Posted on September 7, 2015Continue readingby Dr. Diana Solovyeva, Scaly-sided Merganser Task Force Coordinator The year of 2015 became extremely successful for Scaly-sided Merganser production in artificial nest sites. After 10 years of failure the Artificial nest box program in China provided first results: eleven ducklings hatched in Chevy Volt Battery box in Changbaishan. See links: Inhabitat: http://inhabitat.com/chevy-volt-battery-covers-recycled-as-adorable-nesting-boxes-for-endangered-birds/ Good Magazine: […]
R.I.P Yangkou
Posted on September 3, 2015Continue readingby Devaram T Yangkou also known as XiaoYangkou, the very famous coastal town for the Spoon-billed Sandpipers came into the light only in 2008. When Spoonies were found in good numbers since 2008, numerous birders and photographers came from every corner of the world to see this “Holy Grail.” Even before 2008, the mudflats were reclaimed for the […]
Foster care rare birds return home to breed
Posted on August 22, 2015Continue readingWildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) News Spoonievision – first footage and behind-the-scenes interviews Rare Spoon-billed Sandpipers that were fostered by conservationists have returned home to breed in numbers for the first time. Five birds that were taken into captivity as eggs a year ago, and raised by WWT’s expert bird keepers till they fledged, have […]
Conserving Seabirds in the Philippines’ Last Great Rookery
Posted on August 19, 2015Continue readingBy Gregg Yan, WWF Philippines / Wildlife Extra ‘Never look up with your mouth open,’ by Gregg Yan The combined stench of rotting fish and guano was incredible. Soaked and shivering, we shelter beneath a dripping grove of Argusia trees on Tubbataha’s South Islet and count birds. Chilly raindrops are the least of our concerns – more […]
Brave efforts pay off in doubly-successful project to restore colonies of Chinese Crested Tern
Posted on August 18, 2015Continue readingRead in Japanese Written By Shaun Hurrell (BirdLife International) The Chinese Crested Tern Thalasseus bernsteini is one of the rarest birds in the world. Only rediscovered 15 years ago, after its assumed extinction for six decades, this Critically Endangered seabird has a very small population size and only three breeding sites are known. But the BirdLife International […]
Collaborative Work Programme for Shorebird Conservation in the EAAF
Posted on August 17, 2015Continue readingWritten by Bena Smith, WWF Hong Kong With support from both the Yellow Sea Ecoregion Taskforce and the Shorebird Working Group of the East Asian–Australian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), WWF-Hong Kong releases a Collaborative Work Programme for the conservation of East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) shorebirds, with a focus on the Yellow Sea Ecoregion. The Programme […]
Global trends show seabird populations dropped 70 per cent since 1950s
Posted on August 3, 2015Continue reading– Comment from Dr. Judit Szabo, EAAFP Science Officer – For only about one in five species of seabirds do we have reliable information of what’s going on. For these monitored species, total numbers have declined by nearly 70% in the last 60 years. The largest declines were observed in families with wide-ranging pelagic (open-sea) […]
Tomoko gives two lectures at Green Climate Frontier camp of SUNY, Korea
Posted on August 3, 2015Continue readingby Sumin Kim, EAAFP intern EAAFP Communication Officer Tomoko Ichikawa gave two lectures about migratory waterbirds and global warming to Korean students aged 9 to 10 who participated in the Green Climate Frontier summer camp in the last week of July. The camp was a three-day environmental education program organised by The State University of New […]
백령도 밑 소청도에 국가철새연구센터 만드는 까닭은
Posted on August 3, 2015Continue reading김기범 기자, 경향신문 서해5도 중 소청도에 국가철새연구센터가 건립된다. 환경부는 한국 철새연구 업무를 총괄할 ‘국가철새연구센터’를 2017년 완공 목표로 인천 옹진군 소청도에 건립한다고 30일 밝혔다. 환경부는 소청도에 국가철새연구센터가 새로 들어서면 철새의 이동경로 등 철새 연구를 보다 종합적으로 수행하는 것이 가능해지고, 조류독감(AI) 등 질병 대응과 국제협력에도 도움이 될 것으로 기대하고 있다. 환경부는 전남 신안군 흑산도의 국립공원관리공단 철새연구센터가 국립공원 […]
International Symposium for HPAI and Wild Bird Conservation was held in ROK
Posted on July 31, 2015Continue readingby EAAFP Secretariat The international Symposium for HPAI and Wild Bird Conservation (23-24 July 2015) was held at the National Institute of Ecology in Seocheon, Republic of Korea. It was hosted by the Ministry of Environment, and organised by National Institute of Ecology. International experts gathered to give presentations about HPAI in their countries and […]
