Go to watch a video clip from Bangladesh Spoon-billed Sandpiper Conservation Project
Bangladesh Spoon-billed Sandpiper Conservation Project has been working in Bangladesh in an organized manner since 2009. The goal of the project is to conserve and conduct research on the critically endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers Eurynorhynchus pygmeus wintering along the coast of Bangladesh especially on Sonadia island. The project discovered local hunters were hunting SBS along with other shorebirds. Since 2011 the project has been working with the hunters to provide alternative income generation options. Things are now changing and here is a glimpse.
