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IUCN WCC Day 1: What do birds tell us about the state of the planet?

Over the next week, 8,000 delegates from around the world are meeting at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju, the Republic of Korea, to explore many of our most pressing environmental and development challenges, and how nature is intricately linked to solving these issues. BirdLife is well represented at the meeting, with around 30 [...]

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Census finds unexplained fall in Black-faced Spoonbill numbers

The 2011 International Black-faced Spoonbill Census has found a large decrease in the known wintering populations since last year’s census.

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Birds Korea Blueprint 2010

The Birds Korea Blueprint aims to support ongoing conservation initiatives as part of the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) efforts to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss, in line with commitments to the Millennium Development Goals.

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Birds Fly into the Red

The worst fears of shorebird experts in Australia were realised recently when it became clear that reclamation of the extensive mudflats at Saemangeum in the Yellow Sea had caused alarming declines in populations of migratory waders which use the area as a stopover on their annual pilgrimage to Australia. Without these mudflats, the waders had nowhere to stop over and feed on invertebrates to refuel for their arduous journey.

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Four Rivers Project in Korea

Birds Korea has completed and published a preliminary report on the anticipated impacts of the Four Rivers Project on waterbirds. At present the Four Rivers Project entails, by 2012, the ‘refurbishment’ of the nation’s four largest rivers (by area of river basin): the Han, the Nakdong, the Geum and the Yeongsan. The project includes the [...]

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