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Threat to Spoon-billed sandpipers (2 Viewers)

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This is a worrying story. Hopefully conservationists will be able to discuss with local government agencies how to address the trapping of spoon-billed sandpipers and other migratory birds.

Full article here.

Endangered spoon-billed sandpipers arriving at their wintering grounds in China are being threatened by nets designed to trap shorebirds. ...

the study, carried out by several conservation organisations, also reported that the practice of shore-bird trapping in some of these important wintering sites for spoon-billed sandpipers and other migratory birds has worsened in recent years.

According to BirdLife International: "Illegal bird-netting now poses a major threat to spoon-billed sandpipers and other shorebirds."
 
Because of the 'situation' in the far east my vote...[along with many of my friends]...would be to introduce the Slimbridge spooners into the Western Palearctic...

If we could increase the numbers over here in the West they would, presumably, start using traditional European wader migration routes down into Africa...etc

Far greater chance of saving the species this way at the moment methinks...:cat:

ps...[I believe this has been considered by the birding powers that be]....


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