Birds Korea was fledged in 2004. Our impartial NGO has solely 300 members, however an enormous mission: the conservation of birds and their habitats in Korea and the broader Yellow Sea Eco-region.
In all of our work, we try to collect strong knowledge; and, based mostly on greatest science, to suggest trustworthy and sensible options geared toward supporting progress towards assembly the Sustainable Growth Targets.
Examples of our work from the early 2000s to 2015 will be discovered on our archived web sites (birdskorea.org and birdskorea.or.kr), and from 2014 to the current right here, on our weblog. Our work contains gathering onerous knowledge on the manifold impacts of habitat loss and degradation – on biodiversity, on local weather and on native communities; growing ecological plans to assist the formal conservation of key areas; and conducting analysis, particularly on threatened chicken species, chosen as particularly good representatives of threatened habitats.
One such species is the exquisitely-plumaged and globally Endangered Scaly-sided Merganser, which is confined to fast-flowing rivers. “Scalies” are extraordinarily cautious and delicate to disturbance from folks. They breed in distant riverine forests, shared with the Tiger in northeast China and Russia, after which migrate southwestward by the Korean Peninsula to winter in southern Korea and jap China. Already, now we have carried out three nationwide “Scaly” surveys within the ROK (within the winters of 2012, 2014 and 2022) enabling us to develop a nationwide mid-winter inhabitants estimate and to enhance understanding of their ecological necessities; as a part of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership’s Scaly-sided Merganser Activity Drive, we helped to conduct a survey of rivers within the DPR Korea; and in 2021, we began an extended dedication to monitoring and conservation within the Yeoncheon Imjin River Biosphere Reserve on the ROK aspect of the DMZ, a key space for Scalies and plenty of different threatened species.
Bettering conservation alternatives for Scalies means managing rivers in ways in which assist this and different charismatic riverine wildlife, together with endangered freshwater turtles and endemic fish species, whereas strengthening different key components of sustainability.
In Yeoncheon County, in 2023 and 2024 we’re delighted to have the ability to work with Yeoncheon County and invited specialists, together with from the College of California Berkeley and Tokyo Institute of Expertise, on the event of an built-in planning imaginative and prescient for the Yeoncheon Imjin River Biosphere Reserve. This imaginative and prescient will embrace: river restoration and air pollution discount measures; suggestions on protected areas for environmental training and eco-tourism, led by native communities; and higher integration of biodiversity conservation into city and rural planning, each on the site-level and all through Yeoncheon County – all good for each biodiversity and folks.
As at all times, we are able to solely do as a lot as our capability permits. So to assist assist our conservation work, we’re delighted to have been accepted onto Pinwheel.
Pinwheel is a singular sustainability platform offering a complete response to environmental challenges. Pinwheel permits progressive companies to fund the world’s most impactful local weather and biodiversity tasks in collaboration with workers, purchasers and shoppers. In August-September 2023, world-renowned Frieze Seoul is supporting three sustainability tasks through Pinwheel – and Birds Korea is delighted to have our work for the Scaly-sided Merganser chosen as a kind of three tasks.
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