Tag
Wetlands: tidal flats, saltpans and shallow water under pressure
Shallow water and the birds that need it. Tidal flats, saltpans, lakes and reedbeds, and the reclamation, drainage and development schemes that keep arriving at them.
- Burdur Lake: the wintering site the White-headed Ducks left
A closed basin in south-western Turkey once held most of the world's wintering White-headed Ducks. It has lost 47% of its water, and the ducks moved on.
- 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.
- 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.