Hi Kevin
Thanks for passing on this important news - how fortunate that the team
was able to scramble to safety! Our hearts go out to colleagues and
fellow birders and their families in these regions
Cheers
Russell Woodford
Birding-Aus List Owner
On 01/01/2005, at 10:49 PM, Kevin Vang wrote:
Also of interest to people at this time is that the Development and
Environment Foundation for which I work, AFAP in Sydney, was
undertaking a variety of environmental rehabilitation programs for
coastal, lowland forest, mangrove and coral reef habitats in
Southwest Sri Lanka before the tsunami hit. This includes the
lowland, forest habitat of the Green-billed Coucal. Our local staff
in the bay south of Galle were actually out planting mangrove
seedlings when the wave hit. Due to the small size of the initial
wave, they were fortunately able to all escape due to the proximity of
nearby Rumassala Hill up which they quickly ran for safety before the
bigger waves came in.
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