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Publisher: Aap NewsWire
Publication: aap Australian General News (Sun 2 Feb 2003)
Keywords: Wildlife (1)
Edition: Both Cycles
CANBERRA, Feb 2 AAP - The federal government today announced $1 million in
Natural Heritage Trust funding to conserve migratory shorebirds.
Environment Minister David Kemp said more than two million migratory
shorebirds, of 36 species, each year migrated up to 25,000 kilometres
between
breeding grounds in Australia and the northern hemisphere.
He said the birds migrated along the East Asian-Australasian flyway, which
starts at breeding grounds in northern China, Mongolia, Siberia and Alaska
and
covers 20 countries in East Asia and the Pacific, before arriving in
Australia
and New Zealand.
Dr Kemp said along the way the birds relied on a network of important
wetland
sites to stop and feed and to build up stores of fat and protein for the
next
leg of their flight.
"Australia is leading international efforts in East Asia to conserve these
birds and the habitats vital to their survival," he said.
Dr Kemp said the funding would be used to develop a wildlife conservation
plan
for migratory shorebirds.
He said data on shorebirds would be improved to better enforce laws to
protect
the birds.
AAP sm/cjh/ts Both CyclesFed: $1 million in funding for shorebirdsAap
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