Tag
Habitat: the places these birds depend on, and their condition
Habitat explains more about what a place holds than any species list does, and it is also what changes when a place comes under pressure. These are the articles where the habitat itself is the subject: tidal flats, grassland, saltpans, dehesa and the reclaimed coast.
- Kinangop grasslands: endangered habitat and conservation
The Kinangop grasslands hold a habitat found nowhere else, and a bird that lives nowhere else. What the loss looks like, and who has worked against it.
- Ilisu Dam and Hasankeyf: flooding an 11,000-year-old town
The Ilisu Dam on the Tigris would submerge Hasankeyf, said to meet nine of the ten UNESCO World Heritage criteria, along with the river habitat around it.
- Incheon and Ganghwa tidal power against the tidal flats
Two proposed tidal power plants at the top of the Yellow Sea, promoted as green infrastructure, would have destroyed internationally important habitat.
- Saemangeum: what happens when a staging site is walled off
A 33km sea wall closed in 2006 and enclosed over 40,000 hectares of tidal flat. What the monitoring showed, and why it defines the Yellow Sea argument.
- Scaly-sided Merganser and the legacy of river engineering
An Endangered duck that needs clean, fast rivers with mature trees along them, and what large-scale river works leave behind.
- Ulcinj Saltpans: could tourism save a Montenegrin wetland?
A working saltpan on the Adriatic flyway, abandoned as an industry and coveted as a development site. What was at stake, and why tourism cut both ways.
Notesshort entries, not full articles
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Incheon tidal power proposal
A tidal barrage proposed on internationally important intertidal habitat near Incheon, and the assessment questions it raised.
- 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.
- 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.