Ramsar designation planned for Boeung Prek Lapouv area phnompenhpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from phnompenhpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Coastal bird sanctuaries a World Heritage candidate By YANG WANLI | China Daily | Updated: 2021-07-13 09:07 Share CLOSE A flock of red-crowned cranes gather in a field in the Yancheng Rare Birds National Nature Reserve. [Photo by Chen Guoyuan/For China Daily]
China will apply to make the second phase of its migratory bird sanctuaries, which lie along the coast of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Gulf, a UNESCO World Heritage site before February, aiming to further protect wildlife in the world s largest intertidal wetland system.
The migratory bird sanctuaries along the Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf coast are in exceptionally productive areas that also serve as areas where many species of fish and crustaceans grow.
Lingnan University in Hong Kong and HKBWS study shows preservation of wetlands in Deep Bay area vital to protect declining waterbird species asiaresearchnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from asiaresearchnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Migratory Birds with Satellite Transmitters can Help Study Environmental Changes
Written by AZoCleantechMay 20 2021
Migratory birds fitted with small satellite transmitters in their featherlight “backpacks” can teach people more about changes in the environment upon being monitored. Moreover, it could help prevent biodiversity loss.
Great knot flock, including one individual carrying the satellite transmitter, at Raoping, Guangdong, China in April 2017. Image Credit: Ginny Chan.
That is a crucial message in the PhD-thesis that Ying Chi Chan, a PhD candidate of the University of Groningen, based at the Royal NIOZ (Netherlands Institute for Sea Research), defends on May 28
th, 2021.
Bar-tailed godwits with transmitters on their backs, directed us to an important area along the coast of the Yellow Sea at Dafeng-Dongtai-Rudong, where many birds roost and feed. Showing the importance of this area for migratory birds led to a halt of intended land-claim in the tidal zone of the Y