Yubudo (Yubu) Island, Guem Estuary - A shorebird haven in the Yellow Sea

The Geum Estuary in Seocheon County, South Korea is one of the most significant migratory shorebird stopover points in the Yellow Sea and the most significant in Korea. With the loss of the Saemangeum mudflats a small island (known as Yubu Island) has become a crucial refuge site and hosts close to 40,000 shorebirds and waterbird each year including the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper.
With funding from Woodside Australia, BirdLife International and BirdLife Australia are working together with Seocheon County Government, the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) Secretariat and other stakeholders including local communities and NGOs, national government and international agencies to support and enable the long-term, participatory conservation of Geum Estuary. The Geum Estuary contains two Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs), a Ramsar site, and an EAAFP Flyway Network Site and the long-term conservation plan includes securing World Heritage Site status for the site (with Wadden Sea Secretariat staff advising), and supporting the development of nature based tourism.

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It's a great video! Tank you for the great video. I've been visiting every year. Increasingly, the number of birds is decreasing. This is especially true of the Yellow Sea, which is caused by the reclamation of Korea's West Sea mudflats. The absence of government-level protective consciousness, plus additional Saemangeum Control and Reclamation Works The construction of an international airport in 2019 has been delayed due to the foolish construction of mudflats by using the internal dredge for landfill. The unconscious Korean government is always focusing on the policy of destroying mudflats. The mudflats are disappearing as a result of the lack of protection and conservation awareness, and as a result, large civil construction companies are rushing to the ground. If you have any plans to shoot or search for Saemangeum and his wife, Don't visit through government or government agencies, and make sure you don't visit the site. I want you to join a voluntary monitoring group and listen to the unorganized sounds of the scene. The representative civic group is Saemangeum Citizen Ecological Survey. cafe.daum.net/smglife