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[Researchers in the remote area; animals] A way to figure out the spreading of Avian Influenza (AI)
Read in Korean By Young-joon Choi of Dongascience Translated by EAAFP Secretariat For centuries, humans and animals have been chasing each other. It was a matter of ‘to eat or to be eaten’. However things have changed and from the 20th century, a group of people started chasing after animals for a different reason. These […]
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Birds connect: countries, sites and people!
A personal note by Andreas Kim For our winter vacation trip (Jan-Feb) we visited the far southern end of our East Asian-Australasian Flyway: New Zealand. Because of the personal connection from my research work on leg-flagged shorebirds we stayed quite a long time at the Pukorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre at the Firth of Thames [EAAF019]. […]
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From MOP8 to MOP9 – January 2016 Newsletter
Spike Millington, Chief Executive To our Partners and Supporters, One year ago, following the Eighth Meeting of EAAFP Partners (MOP8) in Kushiro, Japan, the EAAFP Secretariat sent out the first monthly newsletter. Generally the newsletter, along with web postings and social media messages, has been well-received, although we still lack contributions from partners and collaborators. […]
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Crane Birdwatching with EAAFP Secretariat and Incheon School Students
Read in other languages: Eunjin Yu, EAAFP intern On January 9th 2016, together with EAAFP Secretariat, students from Incheon schools went on a crane birdwatching trip to Paju and Cheolwon, Republic of Korea. The trip began from Incheon to Paju Book City, Imjin River and Imjin-ri Heliport near Chopyeong Island in Paju City, and then […]
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Workshop on bird watching and eco-tourism
Tomoko Ichikawa, Communication Officer On 16 December 2015, a workshop on bird watching and eco-tourism was organized by Seosan City and Ecotourism Korea at the Seosan BirdLand, Seosan City, Republic of Korea. Forty practitioners from 17 ecotourism promotion sites in the RoK, eco-tour companies, wetland education center staffs, conservationists and local people attended the workshop. […]
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Successful Effort to Reduce Mortality Rate of Rare Seabirds by 20%
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“Ecosystem Restoration” vs “Agricultural Damage” … Conflicts on the Opening of Nakdong Estuary Bank
Read in Korean By Seonguk Wi of Joongang News Translated by EAAFP Secretariat Busan City “Full opening of floodgate expected by 2025” Restoration of the once-damaged Eulsukdo migratory bird habitat Seawater affecting agriculture Persuasion of 18,000 farmers needed Opening Nakdong Estuary Bank’s floodgate has recently become controversial. Mr. Byeongsu Seo, the mayor of Busan City […]
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Avian Influenza (AI) Situation Update: East and Southeast Asia (October to December 2015)
Between the 1st of October and the 28th of December 2015, there have been 42 confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreaks in poultry, three (3) positive low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) surveillance findings in poultry, one (1) positive wild bird case and three (3) human cases in East and Southeast Asia. The following subtypes […]
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Eurasian Spoonbill Seen at Geolmaeri in Asan, ROK
Read in Korean By Yoonseon Namgung of Naeil News Translated by EAAFP Secretariat President Sangsub Kim of Korean Association for Bird Protection’s Asan Office has spotted 7 Eurasian Spoonbills, a Black-winged Stilt and a Chinese Pond Heron while monitoring at Geolmaeri Mudflat in Asan, the Republic of Korea. It is a rare occasion to see […]
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Shorebirds gain new sanctuary in South Australia
By Sean Dooley, BirdLife International Paul Sullivan, CEO of BirdLife Australia, welcomed the announcement from South Australia (SA) Environment Minister, Mr Ian Hunter, that the Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary will be proclaimed a National Park. Mr Hunter told the crowd gathered at the Adelaide Flyway Festival in October that the government would also pursue a […]
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