Endangered Oriental storks to be tracked as they migrate

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	Endangered Oriental storks to be tracked as they migrate
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	2018-06-27
发布年	2018
语种	英语
国家	国际
领域	资源环境
正文(英文)	For the first time in 20 years, Russian and Chinese specialists will be able to track Oriental storks as they migrate from their summer breeding areas in the Amur and Ussury river basins to their wintering sites further south – providing critical information to assist the conservation of this endangered species. With just 4000 Oriental storks surviving, scientists will attach GPS transmitters to 80 chicks in four provinces in the Russian Far East to monitor their migration routes. The tracking initiative follows an international workshop co-hosted by WWF-Russia Amur branch, which brought ornithologists and other experts from Russia and China together to discuss the best approach. “The conservation of the Oriental stork is being strengthened by the enhanced international cooperation between China and Russia,” said Liu Peigi, Director of WWF China North-East Office. “Thanks to the joint efforts of the administrative departments of both sides of the Amur River and WWF, there is now an effective platform for information exchange, experience sharing, and conducting joint conservation programmes to assist migratory birds and their habitats as well.” The first tracking programme was launched in Russia in 1998 with satellite transmitters providing researches with the first data ever on Oriental stork migration from the Amur River basin to Yantze River wintering sites. Comparing the modern migration patterns with those from 20 years ago will provide critical information considering all the landscape changes and agricultural development over the last two decades. In particular, it will be vital to register the main stopover sites and areas of high bird concentration in order to devise effective protection measures in Russia and China. The current tracking programme has been organized as a part of the Memorandum on Transboundary Cooperation between 16 Chinese and 12 Russian protected areas that are located along the Amur and Ussury Rivers on Sino-Russian border, which was signed in June, 2016 by the Heilongjiang Forest Department (China), the Coordination Council of Nature Reserves and National Parks of the Southern Far East (Russia), and WWF.
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来源平台	World Wide Fund for Nature
文献类型	新闻
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/125124
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	admin. Endangered Oriental storks to be tracked as they migrate. 2018.