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• Azzam Alwash on restoring the Mesopotamian marshes

  The marshes of southern Iraq were drained deliberately in the 1990s. The founder of Nature Iraq on returning in 2003 to try to bring them back.

• BirdLife and the search for breeding Spoon-billed Sandpipers

  A 2011 episode on the expedition to northern Russia looking for undiscovered breeding pairs of the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper.

• Ceri Levy and the Ghosts of Gone Birds

  An art exhibition about extinct birds, raising money for BirdLife's Preventing Extinctions Programme and reaching people conservation reporting does not.

• Ceri Levy on what Malta is actually like

  A documentary filmmaker's reaction to seeing the illegal shooting of migrants first-hand, recorded shortly after returning.

• Chris Collins on returning from Chukotka

  A 2011 conversation recorded a day after the Heritage Expeditions guide returned from the Spoon-billed Sandpiper fieldwork in north-eastern Russia.

• Christoph Zöckler on the Rudong tidal flats

  A survey week at Rudong recorded at least 106 Spoon-billed Sandpipers, possibly a third of the world population, on mudflats threatened with reclamation.

• Christoph Zöckler on the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Recovery Group

  A 2011 interview with the coordinator of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Species Recovery Group, recorded before the survey expedition to eastern Russia.

• Christoph Zöckler: an update from Slimbridge

  Recorded a week after the first Spoon-billed Sandpipers reached Slimbridge, on the breeding programme, hunting on the wintering grounds, and reclamation.

• Conference Calls, December 2011

  An edition of the Conference Calls series, recorded on 2 December 2011.

• Conference Calls, September 2011: listing, and the panel format

  An edition of the Conference Calls series from 10 September 2011, which took in bird listing and the services birders keep their lists on.

• Dan Rhoads on birding in Cyprus

  An American birder, trained at the Cornell Lab, on watching migration from an island where the birds are both spectacular and heavily persecuted.

• Debbie Pain on the Spoon-billed Sandpiper breeding programme

  A 2011 conversation with Dr Debbie Pain of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust on the breeding programme set up as a last resort for the Spoon-billed Sandpiper.

• Development on the shoreline of Lake Qarun

  A resort proposed on the shore of a protected Egyptian lake recognised for its wintering waterbirds and breeding Slender-billed Gulls.

• Filming the Bogotá Sunangel question

  A hummingbird at a private reserve in north-eastern Colombia, and whether it is a species known from a single nineteenth-century specimen.

• Geoffrey Saliba on illegal hunting in Malta

  A second conversation with BirdLife Malta's campaigns coordinator on the illegal shooting and trapping of migrating birds, and what campaigning costs.

• The Great March of Anatolia: Turkey's rivers and its dams

  Engin Yılmaz of Doğa Derneği on Anadolu Vermeyeceğiz, the citizen campaign against a hydroelectric programme spanning thousands of kilometres of river.

• The IUCN Yellow Sea report, and a whaling announcement

  An IUCN situation analysis on East Asian intertidal habitats, and Korea's announcement at the IWC that it would resume hunting Minke Whales.

• Jeff Gordon on the American Birding Association

  A membership organisation founded in 1969 and widely written off by 2010, and its new president on what it was for and whether it still had a role.

• Mark Avery on Fighting for Birds

  The RSPB's former conservation director on his second book after leaving, on conservation politics, farmland birds and the shooting industry.

• Mark Avery on whether an individual can make a difference

  Recorded after an autumn statement widely read as hostile to environmental regulation, on what one person can actually do.

• Martin Hellicar on ambelopoulia and bird trapping in Cyprus

  Blackcaps trapped in their hundreds of thousands for an illegal delicacy, and the campaign against a trade with a substantial commercial value.

• Matt Shardlow on neonicotinoid insecticides

  The chief executive of Buglife on a class of systemic insecticide, what it does beyond its target, and why invertebrate declines are so poorly monitored.

• Nial Moores at the IUCN World Conservation Congress

  Recorded shortly before the Republic of Korea hosted the IUCN congress, on what an international conference does and does not change for the tidal flats.

• Rob Lambert on the Isles of Scilly

  Whether Scilly's decline as a birding destination has been exaggerated, and what changed: with a historian of British birdwatching.

• Simon Tonkin on farmland birds

  A conversation on the conservation of farmland birds, and on working with the agricultural systems that determine what survives on them.

• Surveying wintering Scaly-sided Mergansers in Korea

  A river survey update on an Endangered duck with a world population of around 1,700 pairs, a significant share of which winters in the Republic of Korea.

• Terry Townshend on illegal mist-netting in China

  Millions of birds a year taken in illegal nets, and the Chinese activists documenting and dismantling them.

• Terry Townshend on Jankowski's Bunting

  One of East Asia's rarest birds, and a BirdLife Species Champion's effort to keep it from extinction. Recorded in Beijing.

• Tristan Reid: tattoos, and a walk across Turkey

  The Inked Naturalist on drawing attention to Turkey's threatened biodiversity: first with bird tattoos, then with a plan to hike thousands of kilometres.

• Voices from the London march against the badger cull

  Short interviews recorded on 1 June 2013 with marchers and campaign organisations opposing the English badger cull.