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More on Scaly-sided Merganser and the Four Rivers Legacy

…in late 2009, as the Four Rivers project was launched, almost all Korean environmental NGOs and hundreds of the nation’s leading experts warned of its potential environmental, economic and social costs. In early 2010, we published our bilingual report predicting likely impacts on waterbirds: http://www.birdskorea.org/Habitats/4-Rivers/BK-HA-Preliminary-Report-2010.shtml. Many of the predictions that were made have already been proven correct…

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Birds Korea: Support for the Proposed Incheon and Ganghwa Tidal Power-plants Ebbs away…

A comment by Birds Korea Director Dr Nial Moores on the proposed Incheon and Ganghwa Tidal-power plants, renewable energy projects being sold in the Republic of Korea

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Nial Moores: Stejneger’s Stonechat in Korea – a quick Introduction with Images

Nial Moores, November 14th, 2012

With recent splits in formerly familiar species (such as Arctic Warbler) and proposed splits in others (including Blue-and-White Flycatcher), several new species have been

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Nial Moores: New Paper on Tidal-flat Mapping Methodology Available Online

A comment by Dr Nial Moores, Director of Birds Korea, November 12th

  • It is clear that tidal-flat reclamation has led to massive declines in some species of

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Be positive: a quick comment on comments

I recently talked with Terry Townshend for a podcast looking at a campaign, being led by Chinese birders, to tear down illegal nets that are widespread across

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TN99 Christoph Zockler on the Rudong tidal flats

"All our efforts to safeguard the breeding area in Russia and most important wintering sites in Myanmar and Bangladesh will be in vain if we are unable to

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Birds Korea: Four Rivers, Jeju Naval Base and the IUCN WCC

Four Rivers, Jeju Naval Base and the IUCN WCC

Dr Nial Moores, Director Birds Korea, September 14th

Some folks have asked why I am not at the IUCN’s World Conservation

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Birds Korea at the Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory Bird Fair, Kent (UK)

Written by Martin Sutherland, Birds Korea UK, September 2012: Sixty years on from the establishment of a ringing station at Sandwich Bay on the east Kent coast in England,

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Spoon-billed Sandpiper makes the list…

...of the most 100 threatened species on the planet.

As much as I dislike these sorts of lists - a fern specialist or a freshwater invertebrate specialist could probably

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TN98 Birds Korea and the IUCN WCC

A conversation with Dr Nial Moores, Director of Birds Korea - the accredited NGO based in the Republic of Korea that works for the conservation of birds and

  

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