• China Coastal Blueprint Project Launched

    The China Coastal Wetland Blueprint Project, jointly implemented by the State Forestry Administration, the Paulson Institute and the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR) of the Academy of Sciences, held its Inception Workshop on 17-18 April 2014 in Beijing. The Blueprint project aims to assess the current status, trend and threats of […]

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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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  • Global Importance of China’s tidal-flats for Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper Recognised

    Shanghai, (Seoul, Tokyo, Moscow, London, Berlin, Denver) 29 October 2013 A survey of the Chinese coastline by the conservation network “SBS in China” supported by 15 waterbird experts from the international Spoon-billed Sandpiper (SBS) Task Force (1) confirms the outstanding international conservation importance of intertidal wetlands in Jiangsu Province. The survey, conducted from October 15th-19th […]

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  • China’s rarest seabird benefits from colony restoration

    Until this year, there were only two known breeding colonies of the Critically Endangered Chinese Crested Tern Sterna bernsteini: the Mazu Islands off the coast of Fujian, and the Wuzhishan Islands off Zhejiang. However, this summer an innovative tern colony restoration project has apparently established another. Earlier this year, a small island called Tiedun Dao […]

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  • China Coastal Waterbird Census wins Ford Green Award

    By Martin Fowlie, Tue, 05/03/2013 – 16:34  The China Coastal Waterbird Census is a long-term project to monitor the distribution, numbers and seasonal movements of waterbirds along the Chinese coast (Marcus Ho) China lies at the centre of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, and vast numbers of migratory birds pass through the country every year on […]

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  • Statement on H7N9 Avian Influenza in China, April 15th 2013

    The novel strain of avian influenza (H7N9) infecting birds and humans in China has been found in over 20 people in four provinces of the country and has caused 8 human deaths so far. So far, the virus does not appear to be highly pathogenic in birds, hence, making it more challenging to monitor and […]

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  • New Wintering Site for Scaly-sided Merganser discovered in Chongqing, Southwest China

    A new wintering site has been discovered in Chongqing, a municipality in the southwest China, situated in the east of Sichuan and the west of Hubei, the upper stretches of Yangtze River in November 2012. Since a report was given, the members of Chongqing Birdwatching Society regularly visited the site and counted more than 30 […]

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  • Market trade is fuelling the killing of migratory birds in Northern China

    Wildlife photographers and bird watchers gathered at the Beidagang Wetlands Nature Reserve in Tianjin last month were shocked to find a poisoned flock of Oriental White Storks, a protected species. At least 22 of the birds were dead. It was later found that 100 other birds, including mallards, Eurasian teals, spot-billed ducks and grey herons […]

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  • China Coastal Waterbird Census wins Ford Green Award

    China lies at the centre of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, and vast numbers of migratory birds pass through the country every year on the journeys between their breeding and non-breeding grounds. In the past seven years the China Coastal Waterbird Census has gathered a wealth of new information on the populations of the waterbirds that […]

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  • Shorebird Trapping Threatens New Spoon-billed Sandpiper Wintering Site in China

    Four Spoon-billed Sandpipers were found at Fucheng, near Leizhou, south-west Guangdong Province in December 2012. Together with several other recent sightings this record indicates that Spoon-billed Sandpiper is a more widespread wintering species on the coast of southern China than was previously known. However, evidence was found of large-scale trapping of shorebirds and action is […]

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