Bangladesh is one of the most important wintering areas for the Spoon-billed Sandpiper and Sonadia Island is foremost among the national wintering sites for this species there.
The good news is that there has been an on-going project at Sonadia since 2009 aimed at stopping the subsistence hunting which was considered a major threat to the Spoon-billed Sandpipers. It has been largely successful with most if not all hunters being equipped and trained to earn a living in a more sustainable way. The area has been declared by BirdLife International as Bangladesh's 20th Important Bird Area. This is also good news for Nordmann's Greenshank, Asian Dowitcher, Great Knot, Eurasian Curlew and Black-tailed Godwit, all of which spend the winter there and are globally threatened.
http://www.waderquest.org/2013/04/spoon-billed-sandpipers-good-news-and.html
The good news is that there has been an on-going project at Sonadia since 2009 aimed at stopping the subsistence hunting which was considered a major threat to the Spoon-billed Sandpipers. It has been largely successful with most if not all hunters being equipped and trained to earn a living in a more sustainable way. The area has been declared by BirdLife International as Bangladesh's 20th Important Bird Area. This is also good news for Nordmann's Greenshank, Asian Dowitcher, Great Knot, Eurasian Curlew and Black-tailed Godwit, all of which spend the winter there and are globally threatened.
http://www.waderquest.org/2013/04/spoon-billed-sandpipers-good-news-and.html
