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Conservation: the campaigns, the policy, and the birds behind both
Articles filed under conservation as their own subject rather than as background: the organisations, the campaigns, the prosecutions and the policy decisions that determine how much habitat and how many birds survive.
Notesshort entries, not full articles
- African Bird Club, BOC and the NHM: a day of short interviews
Six speakers on the Liben Lark, Lesser Crested Terns in Libya, restoring the lost avifauna of the Mascarenes, and travel in rarely visited parts of Africa.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Spoon-billed Sandpiper on the 100 most threatened list
A note on the species' inclusion among the world's hundred most threatened, and on what such lists are and are not useful for.
- The Spoon-billed Sandpipers at Slimbridge
Birds taken as eggs in Arctic Russia, reared and flown to Gloucestershire, shown for the first time, and what a captive population that size can do.