2015 changes to IUCN Red List for birds
Judit Szabo, Science Officer The IUCN Red List is the world’s most comprehensive information source on the conservation status of plant and animal species. BirdLife is the Red List Authority for birds for the IUCN Red List. Species with “Least Concern” status are doing relatively well, and don’t need as much conservation attention as threatened species. “Near […]
Continue reading우리 갯벌 ‘바닷새의 생태계 보고’로 밝혀져
해양수산부 보도자료 – 전국 연안 바닷새 정밀조사 최초 실시…총126종 최대 40만 개체 수 관찰 – 국제 보호조류이자 우리나라 법정보호종인 청다리도요사촌, 넓적부리도요, 흑기러기, 고대갈매기 등 11종을 포함해 총 126종의 바닷새가 우리 갯벌에 서식하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 해양수산부(장관 유기준)는 정부차원에서 처음으로 지난해 8월부터 1년간 전국 연안에 대한 바닷새 정밀조사를 실시한 결과를 이같이 밝혔다. 조사결과 우리나라 연안습지는 […]
Continue readingWorld’s biggest seabird tracking database shows their incredible journeys
Ben Lascelles, BirdLife International The Global Seabird Tracking Database – one of the biggest marine conservation collaborations in the world – has just passed 5 million data points. The announcement was made at the World Seabird Conference, taking place in Cape Town, South Africa. The database, originally called ‘Tracking Ocean Wanderers’, was established in 2003, when data […]
Continue readingFonterra and DOC supporting international effort to protect godwits and Red Knots
Press Release Fonterra and the Department of Conservation, New Zealand Fonterra and the Department of Conservation, through their Living Water partnership, are supporting an international partnership to secure a safe flight path for New Zealand’s bird of the year – the Bar-tailed Godwit. Today (28 October 2015), Conservation Minister Maggie Barry and Chinese Ambassador Wang […]
Continue readingSeeking Banding Records and Resight Observations of Beringian Dunlin throughout the EAAF
Rick Lanctot, Shorebird Working Group Chair Information on banding efforts and resightings of the four subspecies of Dunlin (Calidris alpina actites, arcticola, kistchinski, pacifica and sakhalina) that breed in Russia or Alaska, and migrate through or winter in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) are needed for a migratory connectivity study. The goal of this project is […]
Continue readingHeadstarting continued: more great news from further along the flyway
by Roland Digby, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper The physical component of headstarting for me finished on 2 August, but the reality is that work never stops with any aspect of this project. There is always planning and preparation for the next year and, most excitingly for me, there are the reports from further along the […]
Continue reading일제 강점 후 서울면적 3배의 갯벌이 간척·매립으로 사라져
김기범 기자, 경향신문 쪼그라든 갯벌도 위험하다 일제강점기 이후 한국 갯벌의 역사는 간척과 매립, 두 축의 파괴로 점철돼 있다. 경제논리 앞에 줄어들어 갯벌 면적은 사람의 손을 타기 전과 비교해 절반 수준에 불과한 것으로 추정된다. 한국 서남해안에 ‘세계 최고’ 자리를 빼앗길까 두려워하던 유럽 와덴해 갯벌국립공원 측이 언젠가부터 마음을 놓았다는 얘기가 들려올 정도로 한국의 갯벌은 원형을 잃었다. 학자마다 […]
Continue readingHabitat Management Plan and Conservation of Threatened Waterbirds in Sonadia Island
Md. Golam Rabbi (Bangladesh Forest Department) rabbi_rk@yahoo.com INTRODUCTION Sonadia Island[EAAF103] is located in south eastern Bangladesh, north-west of Cox’s Bazaar. Island was declared an Ecologically Critical Area (ECA) by the Government of Bangladesh in 1999 which includes Sonadia Island in its entirety and most of Ghotivanga Mouza in adjacent Moheshkhali Island. Around 4916 ha in […]
Continue readingPublication: Integrated monitoring of coastal waterbird populations along the East Atlantic Flyway
by Judit Szabo, Science Officer Knowledge about the status and trends of animal populations is very important not only for timely and appropriate management actions but also to influence relevant policy. For migratory species it may be difficult to obtain reliable global population estimates from simply counting individuals at one place at one time […]
Continue readingWWF and China SFA’s MoU highlighted coastal wetland protection
Press Release by WWF Shanghai, China –Highlighted coastal wetland protection for the first time, China State Forest Administration and WWF singed the annual MoU today. The signing ceremony took place in the presence of the Dutch King. “The agreement includes the content of China’s coastal wetland protection for the first time,” According to Wenwei Ren, Director […]
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