Frenchy
Well-known member
Hi everyone
This message has just been posted on the Oriental Bird Club forum by Nial Moores of Birds Korea. After the tragedy that happened to the Saemangeum estuary in South Korea, perhaps its not too late to add your voice and make this a true international outcry. Please take the two minutes needed to fill in your name on the linked site. The Spoon-billed Sandpipers need you!
All the best,
Paul
Dear All,
A very brief update on Saemangeum (until 2006, East Asia's most important known shorebird site), and the neighboring Geum estuary, now the best such site remaining in South Korea.
On September 12th, 2 Nordmann's Greenshank (an adult and a juvenile) were found in the first area visited within the vast Saemangeum area. There were probably still thousands of shorebirds strung along the shoreline there, feeding in areas wetted not by tides but by extremely heavy late summer rains.
The same day, a visit to the adjacent Geum Estuary found 4 more Nordmann's Greenshank, and 13 Spoon-billed Sandpiper in a single scan (for disgiscope images of one of the juvenile SBS, please go to/scroll down on:
http://www.birdskorea.org/birds_latest.asp
Numbers of Spoon-billed Sandpiper in Korea tend to peak at the end of September. With possibly now only several hundred individuals remaining globally of this critically Endangered species, even the 13 we found on Sept 12th is likely to be one of highest counts of this species during southward migration in 2007 - anywhere.
And yet this site too is still not safe from the threat of reclamation.
There is still, fortunately, a chance to do something.
Please go to:
http://www.restoresaemangeum.com/
and send your concerns.
Please also pass this URL on to other birders, birding blogs and listservers.
Sending a mail and forwarding this URL on should only take 2 minutes at most...
Your email WILL make a difference.
Emails WILL continue to stimulate concerns here, and they WILL influence media and government thinking as South Korea prepares to host the next Ramsar Convention conference (in October 2008).
Please take a couple of minutes to help keep the Spoon-billed Sandpiper away from the brink of extinction...
With very best wishes and birding,
Nial Moores
Birds Korea
This message has just been posted on the Oriental Bird Club forum by Nial Moores of Birds Korea. After the tragedy that happened to the Saemangeum estuary in South Korea, perhaps its not too late to add your voice and make this a true international outcry. Please take the two minutes needed to fill in your name on the linked site. The Spoon-billed Sandpipers need you!
All the best,
Paul
Dear All,
A very brief update on Saemangeum (until 2006, East Asia's most important known shorebird site), and the neighboring Geum estuary, now the best such site remaining in South Korea.
On September 12th, 2 Nordmann's Greenshank (an adult and a juvenile) were found in the first area visited within the vast Saemangeum area. There were probably still thousands of shorebirds strung along the shoreline there, feeding in areas wetted not by tides but by extremely heavy late summer rains.
The same day, a visit to the adjacent Geum Estuary found 4 more Nordmann's Greenshank, and 13 Spoon-billed Sandpiper in a single scan (for disgiscope images of one of the juvenile SBS, please go to/scroll down on:
http://www.birdskorea.org/birds_latest.asp
Numbers of Spoon-billed Sandpiper in Korea tend to peak at the end of September. With possibly now only several hundred individuals remaining globally of this critically Endangered species, even the 13 we found on Sept 12th is likely to be one of highest counts of this species during southward migration in 2007 - anywhere.
And yet this site too is still not safe from the threat of reclamation.
There is still, fortunately, a chance to do something.
Please go to:
http://www.restoresaemangeum.com/
and send your concerns.
Please also pass this URL on to other birders, birding blogs and listservers.
Sending a mail and forwarding this URL on should only take 2 minutes at most...
Your email WILL make a difference.
Emails WILL continue to stimulate concerns here, and they WILL influence media and government thinking as South Korea prepares to host the next Ramsar Convention conference (in October 2008).
Please take a couple of minutes to help keep the Spoon-billed Sandpiper away from the brink of extinction...
With very best wishes and birding,
Nial Moores
Birds Korea
