• Damming China’s largest freshwater lake could harm fragile ecosystem

    Read in Chinese: Chinadialogue 9 January 2017 Plans to build a lake between China’s largest freshwater lake and largest river have provoked fierce criticism, writes Liu Qin Last November, Jiangxi, a province in central China on the Yangtze River, unexpectedly announced that an environmental impact assessment was underway for a dam project between Poyang Lake [EAAF025] […]

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  • How China can save its threatened coastal wetlands

    Read in Chinese: 28 November 2016, The Paulson Institute About 60 percent of China’s coastal wetlands—crucial ecosystems that help protect coastal communities from rising sea levels and extreme weather and provide a stopover for millions of migratory birds—have disappeared since the 1950s as a result of reclamation for industry, agriculture, urbanization, over-aquaculture, and invasive species. According […]

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  • Satellite tagged bird spotted and photographed in China

    17 November 2016 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Today, Jonathan Martinez managed to catch-up with one of the satellite tagged Spoon-billed Sandpipers, HU, near the port town of Xitou in Guangdong province, China. HU has been at this site since the end of October, arriving a few weeks after being tagged on the Jiangsu coast. Jonathan shares […]

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  • 5 Things to Know…About China’s Coastal Wetlands

    Read in Chinese: The Paulson Institute Millions of migratory birds have returned to China’s coastal wetlands—stopping to refuel for their long journey to their southern winter homes. But as a result of expansion of industry and agriculture, the wetlands and the birds they sustain are disappearing rapidly. There is hope: in its drive to build […]

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  • China: Between Clouds and Dreams

    Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper The plight of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper is the centre piece of a new environmental documentary series, ‘Between Clouds and Dreams’, to be broadcast across China and subsequently around the world on both terrestrial television, including on Channel 4 in the UK, and via China’s satellite television service. This stunning new documentary […]

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  • A new great wall has been established in China’s coastal areas

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  • On China’s Coast, Rare Bird Finds Little Room to Rest

    Shi Yi, Sixth Tone It was the kind of news experts only believe if they see it with their own eyes: A man in China claimed he had spotted 100 Spoon-billed Sandpipers foraging on the muddy coast of the Yellow Sea. The bird is so small that it would barely cover the hand of a grown […]

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  • Counting waterbirds at Shengjin Lake, China for the 50th International Waterbird Census count

    Lu Yong Senior Technical Officer -China Wetlands International The national Nature Reserve of Shengjin Lake [EAAF068] on the southern bank of the Yangtze River in the Anhui Province of China is designated as a Ramsar Site and is on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Site Network due to its international importance for waterbirds. On 12 and […]

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  • NZ and China sign MOA to protect migratory birds

    Bruce McKinlay, EAAFP Focal Point for New Zealand Government On the 18th of March it was a pleasure to host a visit by the State Forestry Administration (SFA) of China to the Miranda Shorebird Centre on the Firth of Thames [EAAF019], New Zealand. Vice Minister Chen Fengxue and delegation were in New Zealand to sign […]

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  • DOC and China’s conservation agency agree to protect migratory birds

    Press Release Fonterra and the Department of Conservation, New Zealand The Department of Conservation (DOC) and the State Forestry Administration (SFA) of China have agreed to work together to protect wetlands visited by Red Knots and Bar-tailed Godwits during their 12,000km migratory flights. DOC Director-General Lou Sanson and Vice-Minister Chen Fengxue, the Chinese Minister responsible […]

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