Saving the Red Knot (video)
Read in Chinese: The Paulson Institute The Red Knot flies each fall along two crisis-ridden migratory routes. One is the East Asia-Australasia Flyway, where many stops along the way have been damaged due to reclamation and other human activities. The other route, across the United States to a winter destination in Tierra del Fuego at […]
Continue readingThe Miracle of Migratory Shorebirds (video)
Read in Chinese: The Paulson Institute The miracle of migratory shore birds is still not entirely understood by scientists. The Bar-tailed Godwit travels all the way from Alaska to New Zealand without stopping! If migratory birds have good tailwinds, they sometimes can fly as fast as 60 miles an hour! How and why do birds […]
Continue readingThe third tagged Spoonie CT is off!
14 November 2016 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper A satellite fix has just come in showing that the third tagged Spoon-billed Sandpiper has made a move away from the Jiangsu coast! CT, presumed to be male, has been at the Tiaozini mudflats on the Jiangsu coast since he was tagged in early October. His female counterparts […]
Continue reading서남해안 갯벌 세계유산 등재를 위한 2016년 국제학술대회
Read in English: 2016/10/20 한스 자이델 재단 전세계적으로 유네스코(UNESCO)가 등재한 세계유산은 1,052곳이며, 보편적 가치를 지닌 자연지구와 문화유적 등이 등재되어있다. 한반도에는 총 14곳이 세계문화유산으로 등재되어 있으며, 이중 12곳은 한국에, 2곳은 북한에 위치하고 있다. 10월 12일 “서남해안 갯벌 세계유산 등재를 위한 2016년 국제학술대회”가 목포에서 개최되어 한스자이델 재단 한국 사무소의 펠릭스 글랭크(Felix Glenk)와 최현아 프로젝트 담당 연구원이 참석하였다. […]
Continue readingHSF at the Workshop for World Heritage Nomination – The Wadden Sea and Korean Tidal Flats
Read in Korean: 20 October 2016 Felix Glenk, Hanns Seidel Foundation There are 1,052 World Heritage Sites in the world – natural or cultural sites of outstanding universal values, which are designated by the UNESCO. On the Korean Peninsula, there are a total of 14 designated World Heritage Sites – 12 in the Republic of […]
Continue reading勺嘴鹬进军好莱坞—新电视系列片《中国—云与梦之间》中的勺嘴鹬
– Phil Agland 的作品一直在不断地征服着世界观众 – 通过翻译 勺嘴鹬在中国 编者注:连云港墟沟小学的韩老师(闪雀)和如东掘港小学的陈老师(山水)和学生参与了本片的拍摄,他们也为勺嘴鹬代言! 翻译:宋十月 《中国—云与梦之间》 作者:Phil Agland 国际知名纪录片导演,英国独立制片人。 Phil Agland 的作品一直在不断地征服着世界观众,他在丽江拍摄的《云之南》(Beyond The Clouds)记录了丽江普通人家的故事。凡是看过这部纪录片的人无不为之倾倒,许多人西方人竟然不相信世界上还会有这样美好的地方。 如果想要获得关于本片的信息,可以滑动屏幕到文章末端,点击链接观看预告片:《云与梦之间》 嗯,其实没有那么夸张……但是在英国即将上映的关于中国的环境电视系列片《云与梦之间》中,勺嘴鹬会是整个故事的核心。这部系列片将在包括中国、世界上其他地区的本地电视台和中国的卫星电视台播出。 一切都要从四年前开始讲起。当时我被问及是否愿意成为中国中央电视台的顾问时,我说,如果能让我拍摄一系列关于环境的片子,也许会更好……我简直不敢相信,这居然会成真。但是,这真的成为了现实,并且拉开了这两年来美妙的拍摄历程的序幕。我们的足迹横跨中国的土地,从西部的青藏高原一直到东南沿海的江苏。 勺嘴鹬大约是在20年前闯进我的生命里的。我依然清晰地记着那个时刻,在越南北部红河湾入海口边,15只勺嘴鹬,披着美丽无比的白色冬羽,随着潮水飞进那一片开阔的湿地上。随后,在2008年,我听闻了一个令人心碎的消息——这种在所有水鸟中最富魅力的鸟种,在全世界范围内仅存几百只。 2009年4月,在江苏南通如东小洋口的大片湿地上,我又与勺嘴鹬相遇了。我开始思考,洋口,毫无疑问是勺嘴鹬在从楚科奇到东南亚越冬地的迁飞路线上一个至为关键的停歇地,我们应该如何在这里帮助它们呢?我的忧虑在于,即便在当时,围垦和工业化建设的步伐已是大步流星,过不了几年,这些珍贵的湿地就会统统消失。从那时起,一颗为中国观众拍摄以此为主题的电视片的种子,在我心中悄悄地发了芽。 三年之后,当我与中央电视台讨论为大约一亿观众制作一系列片子时,勺嘴鹬出现在了我的脑海里。 还有什么比把勺嘴鹬的故事放入更广阔的中国环境背景下来讲述给大家更好的主意呢?五个小时的故事,会让中国观众开始理解,为什么这种小鸟以及其他类似的物种,对于自然生命支持系统如此至关重要,为什么同时也是维持人类发展的重要因素。 还有什么比用孩子们的视角来讲述勺嘴鹬的故事更好的方式呢? 三年过去了,这个系列节目制作完成,等待播出。通过对这片极其重要的土地上非凡的人们真实的生活的呈现,这个系列片已经演变成一个关于中国自身与自然和环境的故事。人们的活动与生态和自然的历史交织着,帮助我们对这个共生的世界有了深入了解。然而,孩子们才是这个系列片真正的灵魂,因为他们是未来。通过他们的眼睛,我们才能发现孩子们到底希望继承一个怎样的世界。当他们的祖国踌躇满志地追求一个新未来的同时,它也面对着全球变暖和生态崩溃的现实。 这个系列片以一封寄至中国东部沿海一个小学的神秘的信开篇。小学生们将由此带我们踏上拯救勺嘴鹬的征程。 那么,未来究竟如何?我们如何保证由这部系列片带来的影响力能用于帮助护卫勺嘴鹬以及其他水鸟在东亚迁飞路线上的未来?好消息是,紧接着主要的持续性的科学研究,这个系列片会促使计划建立一个最先进的教育和研究中心。这个未来将建成的中心,将会是一个可持续发展项目的重要组成部分。这个中心将会与当地人一起,努力将保育工作和当地经济发展结合起来。 这个中心的目标是为当地经济注入更多的“财富”——不仅有经济回报,还有作为“地球上最大的迁飞网络”的世界性研究中心带来的国内国际声誉。它的研究将包括:潮间、高潮湿地和海洋生态学、传统应用的研究;气候变化与海平面升高等课题。这些研究同时将会延伸到中国各地的中小学和大学。这个研究中心投入使用之后,将会展示出保育和发展可以成为,并且应该成为硬币的两面。了解勺嘴鹬现在的窘况,有助于我们每个人从大出着眼,不光为东亚迁飞路线上的鸟类,也是为我们自己和后代创造一个光辉的未来。 这个建立在海洋保护区核心部位的“海洋迁飞中心”,目前还是一个梦想,但是这个梦想将会成真。 预告片 《云与梦之间》: http://v.qq.com/x/page/b0188dxeu60.html 原文: http://www.weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404033357200626252#_0 相关文章 (in English): https://eaaflyway.org/oldsite/china-between-clouds-and-dreams/ EAAFP勺嘴鹬特别工作组
Continue readingLife in the mud attracts global travellers
Kandy Curran, ScienceNetwork Western Australia Professor Theunis Piersma’s footprints on the mudflats of Roebuck Bay [EAAF111] and Eighty Mile Beach [EAAF110] marked 20 years of continuous international collaboration and research in the region in October of 2016. Australia contains one of nine flyways for migratory shorebirds of the world that is under growing pressure from habitat […]
Continue readingET settling in at the Gulf of Mottama?
07 November 2016 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper ET arrived at the Gulf of Mottama [EAAF117] in Myanmar at around 9pm on Saturday night (UTC, 2.30 am on Sunday morning local time). 12 hours later, she appeared to be moving to the north west perhaps heading on to Bangladesh after a rest in the gulf. […]
Continue readingIs ET heading for Myanmar? 1000km closer in the last 24 hours
05 November 2016 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Just a quick update to let you all know that ET, the satellite tagged Spoon-billed Sandpiper who yesterday, was just south of the island of Hainan, has flown across Vietnam, Laos and most of Thailand today! The last fix from her came in at 14:09 (UTC, 21:09 […]
Continue readingThe tagged spoonies are on the move!
04 November 2016 Guy Anderson, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Last week we announced that we had fitted the first three satellite tags to wild Spoon-billed Sandpipers, in Jiangsu Province, China in early October. The three birds – ET, HU and CT – are named after the code on the engraved plastic leg flag each bird […]
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