Wetland Loss in the Yellow Sea

The Yellow Sea lies at the center of one of the most populated regions on earth. More than 420 million people live in it’s vicinity and the pressure on natural resources cannot be overstated. Already more than half of the Yellow Sea’s intertidal areas have been converted to land through a process dubbed “reclamation” and the pace of this reclamation is accelerating. If the remaining intertidal areas are lost, long distance migrant bird species and the livelihoods of people that make their living from these mudflats will be lost as well. Already, the Spoon-billed Sandpiper’s population has declined to only a few hundred individuals and the IUCN has stated “that unless major steps are taken taken to reverse current trends, the East Asian-Australasian Flyway is likely to experience extinctions and associated collapses of essential and valuable ecological services in the near future.”
Through satellite imagery, animations and on the ground footage this film visualizes the scale and speed of changes that have occurred along the Yellow Sea’s coastlines in recent years.
This film is also available in Korean, Mandarin, Japanese and Russian.
Filmed by Gerrit Vyn
Edited and narrated by Tom Swartwout
Additional footage by Eric Liner
Music:
"Stealing the Beauty," Tony Flynn, Courtesy of Audiosocket
"Believe in You," Jonathan Hill, Courtesy of Audiosocket
"Ponder," Josh Hill, Courtesy of Audiosocket

[@fouutirassa]

The speaker's voice does such justice to the video. Really, really glad to hear the narrator was switched! Amazing vid.

[@user-ui5en9rt6d]

هذا خلق الله العضيم القادر على كل شي خلقنا وخلق السموات واﻻرض وجميع اﻻنبياء والمرسلين وجميع الكائنات المختلفه subhn Allah Beautiful birds🐦 thank you very much to this video Am from BAGHDAD IRAQ 🇮🇶

[@mattzx003]

Laughed out loud when the Bar-tailed Godwit trajectory abandoned all the others and shot out across the Pacific (to the right of the screen at 0:24)

[@calladricosplays]

Notice how they eventually boomerang back onto the screen around 0:34?

[@navtel]

how freaking sad..

[@jesusvilhena6137]

Para os aficionados, resta uma opção:É FICAR MARAVILHADOS!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mariefrancemonteirolamagne6965]

Magic.

[@silviarete3916]

millions of years of constant preservation are changed in just a half of decade.....?????

[@cancellierr]

Well, everything will find it's balance again when the sea will destroy the costal industry and cities. Birds will come back, humans will be gone.

[@LunarWilderness457]

cancellierr yep, a true declensionist like myself

[@nicolenorm9456]

Peut-on vraiment attendre quelque chose de la Chine? Elle est polluée et polluante sans trop s'en soucier, mis à part quelques Chinois qui tentent d'expérimenter ''David contre Goliath''

[@bubbajohn8131]

Cry for the birds. They are helpless against mans greed. This is a great video but ruined, as usual, by the not needed din I think they call music