A visitor put up by Dr. Kim Sukyung, head of reintroduction analysis group, Yesan Oriental Stork Park
For the reason that globally Endangered Oriental Stork Ciconia boyciana 황새 was misplaced to South Korea as a breeding species in 1971, the Korea Nationwide College of Training and Yesan Stork Park have been growing the variety of storks residing within the wild, first by synthetic breeding (since 1996) after which by reintroduction packages (since 2015).
As of July 2025, it’s estimated that 242 Oriental Storks live in South Korea, and 24 pairs are breeding within the wild nationwide. As a result of Oriental Storks naturally breed in tall bushes, in addition they use stork nesting towers, transmission towers, utility poles, and constructing roofs for nesting.
Oriental Stork nests on transmission towers, utility poles, and roofs are all unsafe and are in locations the place they can not breed repeatedly, upsetting many complaints and expressions of concern. To resolve this downside, Yesan Stork Park has tried to bodily transfer nests to purpose-built nesting towers. The variety of instances the place they’ve been moved efficiently is growing. One profitable nest relocation has been performed in Asan Metropolis, two in Yesan-gun, one in Taean-gun, one in Buan-gun, and one in Gochang-gun, and there at the moment are 4 instances the place storks deserted their unique breeding websites and nested on the stork nest tower the next 12 months.
The nest relocation methodology includes transferring the chicks to a brand new nest tower when they’re round 45 days of age and eradicating the unique nest. After relocation, the mother and father first fly to the brand new nest tower inside 30-500m of the unique nest after 5 to 21 hours. They then primarily used the brand new nest tower, or when the nest was full, they often rested on the unique nest web site close by.
