Category Conservation

Japanese Yellow Bunting merits concern regarding status with low numbers recorded and vulnerability to trapping

After I saw two Japanese Yellow Buntings (aka simply Yellow Buntings Emberiza sulphurata) in Hong Kong this spring, I happened to notice that Birdlife has changed the species’ status from Vulnerable – as it was from 1994 to 2016, to…

Wild birds can be readily blamed for spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza, while investigations of poultry trade sparse by comparison.

Highly pathogenic bird flu variants evolve from regular, low pathogenic, bird flus, within intensive poultry farming.

Birds are wonderful, but also face an array of threats, mostly resulting from human activities - hunting, habitat loss, climate change...

Environmentalism is under assault; yet this planet is the only home we have; providing our food, air, water... It's our life support system.

Two star Hong Kong bird species are Black-faced Spoonbill and Spoon-billed Sandpiper, with stories reflecting changes to east Asian wetlands.

Although much has since been said and written about the need for China to reverse its environmental decline, recent years have abounded with news reports telling of the nation's environment lurching from bad to terrible.

I’m not quite so sure now, but I also think you appreciate living in a world where there are places of outstanding natural beauty, and where tigers prowl jungles, polar bears hunt on Arctic ice floes, pandas roam bamboo forests, and sharks patrol reefs, helping keep ecosystems in balance. If you have children, you hope they and their children can grow and live in a similar world.

This past summer, a team of biologists scoured Siberian tundra in search of nests and eggs of one of the world's most threatened species, spoon-billed sandpiper. Aim was for captive breeding; yet this is far from ideal way of saving species.

Wind farms and migratory birds

On wind farms and actual or possible threats to migratory birds, including in China.

Traditional Chinese Medicine and Conservation

Traditional Chinese Medicine and conservation Bone of Tiger, Bile of Bear In the Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, there is a museum devoted to “Chinese Materia Medica”. Were I to take you in there, I might ask you to…