A different slant on how to protect a species.
Carl Clifford
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> From: 李 静 <>
> Date: 14 November 2013 21:55:51 AEDT
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> Subject: Re: [OB] Look out for spoon-billed sandpipers
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> Dear all
>
> This is Jing Li from spoon-billed sandpiper in China, the team working in
> Rudong.
>
> I am not aware of this plan,
>
>> When initially informed of this predicament, the Chinese Authority view was
>> to catch them all and ship them off to Slimbridge in the UK - they believed
>> that was the way of saving them - almost akin to many people's view of
>> protecting Giant Pandas elsewhere in the country.
>
> Can anyone help provide more information about this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jing Li
> SBS in China
>
>
>
>> 在 2013-11-14，下午5:29， 写道：
>>
>>
>>
>> I believe a recent census of Asiatic waders in Rudong Mudflats (China)
>> revealed the presence of just under 170 Spoon-billed Sandpipers in that
>> region - the largest and most important number in the World (this is both a
>> wintering and staging site for the species). But guess what, the Chinese
>> authorities have these mudflats earmarked for development, despite the
>> presence of these extremely rare birds, and seem set to continue with this
>> traversty, despite protestation by those very few researchers/birdwatchers
>> living in this province. When initially informed of this predicament, the
>> Chinese Authority view was to catch them all and ship them off to Slimbridge
>> in the UK - they believed that was the way of saving them - almost akin to
>> many people's view of protecting Giant Pandas elsewhere in the country. I
>> have no idea how these critically endangered food eco-systems are going to
>> be saved in China from this exploitation but it is going to need a massive
>> amount of compelling scientific research to stop it, but photographing
>> colour-ringed Spoonies, Nordmann's Greenshanks and Great Knots at Rudong may
>> provide some help and certainly prove an important point. Sadly, the
>> enormous wealth and growth now being felt in eastern Asia is having serious
>> repercussions for our wildlife in this region - but hey, that happened in
>> the UK some 60 years ago and hence why we now boast the biodiversity drought
>> and desert we now enjoy in the majority of our countryside outside of nature
>> reserves
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>>
>>
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