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Korea: the Yellow Sea tidal flats, and the birds that refuel there
Reporting from and about the Korean peninsula, most of it concerning the intertidal flats of the Yellow Sea and what reclamation has done to them. Saemangeum, the tidal power proposals at Incheon and Ganghwa, and a long run of interviews with Birds Korea.
- 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.
- Scientific whaling, and what the exemption is for
The Republic of Korea told the IWC it would resume Minke Whale hunting under the research provision. What that clause is, and why it draws criticism.
Notesshort entries, not full articles
- Auklets, Brünnich's Guillemot and Siberian Accentor in Korea
Records of northern seabirds and a Siberian passerine from the Korean peninsula: the kind of observation that fills in a distribution map.
- 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.
- 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.