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Farmers choose solar farm over our endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers
Phuket Gazette 29 July 2016 SAMUT SAKHON: Given a choice between renewable energy and wildlife conservation, the people of Samut Sakhon have opted for a solar farm. Tractors and trucks loaded with soil were seen busily working in a field yesterday to fill a salt basin in Ban Khok Kham [EAAF122], where a three-megawatt solar […]
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Recently joined Flyway Network Sites of EAAFP
Judit Szabo, Science Officer EAAF114: Dashinchilen Tsagaan Wetland – Mongolia This central Mongolian site is a complex of spring-fed lakes of variable depth and salinity as well as marshes with reed and sedge. It is an important breeding site for many cranes, anatids and shorebirds and a significant stopover sites for waterbirds that breed further […]
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Nomination of Inner Gulf of Thailand as EAAFP Flyway Site Network moves forward
The Inner Gulf of Thailand has a 195 km-long section of the coastal zone from Laem Phak Bia in the west to Chonburi in the east and includes an estimated 23,500 ha of intertidal mudflats, extending over 2 km from the shoreline at low tide in places. Four major rivers, Mae Klong, Tha Chin, Chao […]
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Searching for ‘Spoonies’ in Rudong , China
Posted on: June 29, 2014 Report by Bushwings Twenty minutes after high tide on the 2nd May 2014, I stepped onto the mudflats at Dongtai, Rudong, north east of Shanghai. For the next twenty-two days our mission was to search for the highly endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper. The tide here retreats at walking pace […]
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Spoon-billed Sandpipers Winter 2013-2014
Author: Philip D. Round Report by Bird Conservation Society of Thailand The following is a round-up of the Winter events from the Bird Conservation Society of Thailand: “This was an eventful winter in the precarious history of the declining population of Spoon-billed Sandpipers. An International Workshop, hosted by BCST, was held at the Ban Khung Nam […]
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Making The Welcome Warmer
Posted on: January 22, 2014 Author: Amorn Liukeeratiyutkul, Gawin Chutima & Philip D. Round Report by Bangkok Post Greater efforts will be needed, both at home and abroad, to prevent the extinction of a plucky little bird which breeds in Russia and then makes a marathon annual migration to Southeast Asia Does it […]
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Protecting Key Species Conserving Wetlands Engaging Local Communities We achieve this by educating our global community and by raising awareness of the issues at hand. There are two pivotal groups that make it possible: WG/TF. We develop the Flyway Site Network of international importance for the conservation of […]
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