Saemangeum
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Saemangeum is an estuarine tidal flat on the coast of the Yellow Sea in South Korea. It was dammed by the government of South Korea's Saemangeum Seawall Project, completed in 2006, after a long fight
A view of the Saemangeum Seawall
Sinsi sluice gate of Saemangeum Seawall
Before reclamation. Taken in March 1989
Spoon-billed sandpiper
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The spoon-billed sandpiper is a small wader which breeds on the coasts of the Bering Sea and winters in Southeast Asia. This species is highly threatened, and it is said that since the 1970s the breed
Saemangeum
…important feeding ground on the 24,000 km migration between Asia and Alaska and Russia, including the two endangered waders Nordmann's greenshank and spoon-billed sandpiper (each species with fewer than a thousand surviving birds). A conservation organisation has accused authorities of having failed to monitor the project's…
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A "spoonie" on the breeding grounds in Chukotka, Siberia, June 2015.
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