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Urban development in China
Urbanization and industrialization is developing at maximum speed around the Yellow Sea in China and South Korea, much on the cost of natural habitats.
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Saemangeum Seawall, Build on cost of international important tidal flats, South Korea
The Saemangeum Seawall, located on the southwest coast of the Korean peninsula, is the world's longest man-made dyke, measuring 33 kilometres. It runs between…
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Saemangeum embanked tidal flats to be converted into agriculture and other use, South Korea
The Saemangeum Seawall, located on the southwest coast of the Korean peninsula, is the world's longest man-made dyke, measuring 33 kilometres. It runs between…
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Hooded Cranes (Grus monacha), South Korea
The Hooded Crane breeds in south-central and south-eastern Siberia. Breeding is also suspected to occur in Mongolia. Over 80% of its population winters at…
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Saemangeum embanked tidal flats to be converted into agriculture and other use, South Korea
The Saemangeum Seawall, located on the southwest coast of the Korean peninsula, is the world's longest man-made dyke, measuring 33 kilometres. It runs between…
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Rice fields North of the embanked Seamangeum estuary, South Korea
Formerly embanked areas have been turned into intensive rice fields.
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Tidal flats, South Korea West Coast
The Yellow Sea, shared by South Korea, China and the DPRK, has an estimated 2 million ha of remaining tidal-flat , and is one…
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Geumgang tidal flats, South Korea
The Yellow Sea, shared by South Korea, China and the DPRK, has an estimated 2 million ha of remaining tidal-flat , and is one…
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Baikal Teal (Anas formosa), Lifting up from roosting area for night feeding on rice fields, South Korea
The Baikal Teal is one of South Korea's most attractive (the specific name "formosa" means "beautifully formed") and charismatic winter visitors, arriving en masse…
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Saemangeum Seawall, Built at the expense of international important tidal flats, South Korea
The Saemangeum Seawall, located on the southwest coast of the Korean peninsula, is the world's longest man-made dyke, measuring 33 kilometres. It runs between…
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Coastal Wetland Restoration Area South of Saemangeum, South Korea
South Korea invests enormous sums in the restoration of small scale coastal wetlands south of the embanked Saemangeum estuaries, which formerly were used as…
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Tidal flats, South Korea West Coast
The Yellow Sea, shared by South Korea, China and the DPRK, has an estimated 2 million ha of remaining tidal-flat , and is one…