May 13, 2007

A land reclamation project - what could possibly go wrong

Everything if you are a migratory bird. From the BBC News:
Birds 'starve' at S Korea wetland
Tens of thousands of migratory birds are facing starvation in South Korea, the UK-based Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) says. The group says a land reclamation project has destroyed key wetlands used by the birds on their way from Asia to their breeding grounds in the Arctic.

Without the food at the Saemangeum wetlands, on the east coast, many of the birds will not survive the journey.

Two endangered species of wading bird face extinction because of the changes.

There are believed to be fewer than 1,000 mature spoonbilled sandpipers and Nordmann's greenshanks left in the wild.

The RSPB and other wildlife and conservation groups are highlighting the environmental problems at Saemangeum to mark World Migratory Birds Day.
Here is the website for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and their article on this is here: Wildlife starves on emptied wetland Posted by DaveH at May 13, 2007 10:06 AM | TrackBack
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