Dr Nial Moores, Nationwide Director, Birds Korea
Chicken and wetland conservation wants good information; resolve and honesty; and the event of plans and designs that may assist many individuals to learn over the long-term quite than merely revenue a only a few within the short-term.
As our members know, Birds Korea and Birds Korea Yeoncheon have due to this fact been working with Yeoncheon County within the highly-important Yeoncheon Imjin Biosphere Reserve for a number of years now, gathering information; and making conservation proposals. As a part of our strategy, in 2023 and 2024 we then helped to construct an knowledgeable environmental planning collaboration which now consists of Birds Korea and Birds Korea Yeoncheon, Yeoncheon County, a crew from the College of California, Berkeley, led by Professor Emeritus Randy Hester and Professor Matt Kondolf, and the distinguished CEO of the corporate Land Aura in Seoul, Ms. Oh Han-Na.
This yr, this collaboration has been working each within the USA and within the ROK on refining proposals for the proposed Jeongok Wetlands Park (previously referred to as the “spoonbills undertaking”: fuller particulars in English, right here and in Korean, right here) introduced on the very profitable worldwide symposium on Scaly-sided Merganser final yr; and on creating a wider (Biosphere Reserve-wide) Imaginative and prescient Plan, which goals each to preserve biodiversity and to develop tourism and alternatives for inexperienced enterprise all through Yeoncheon County. Each of those proposals had been developed additional first via coursework at UCB in February and March (2024), after which below contract with Yeoncheon County.
Now, Birds Korea is delighted to tell our members and ALL these fascinated with environmental design and conservation planning that the crew from the College of California Berkeley will re-visit Yeoncheon County in early August, to share progress at a global symposium, to be held on August 2nd.
Along with this symposium and casual alternatives to fulfill and talk about, two further devoted work periods can even be held.
The primary session, to be held at County Corridor on August 1st, is for skilled practitioners and lecturers with an curiosity in ecological restoration and planning; and the second session, to be held at a restaurant on August third, is aimed extra at environmental educators, college college students, native individuals and anybody with a deep curiosity in biodiversity conservation via planning and design. We might love so that you can contain!
As a result of the variety of locations on the Work Periods is proscribed, please mail < Nial.Moores at birdskorea.org >earlier than July twenty fifth.
Thanks, and hope to see you there!
