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Massive destruction the “environmentally sound” way

By Charlie November 26, 2008 3 comments

The most eco-ignorant quotation of the week (and in the death-throes of the Bush Administration we should expect more than a few to come our way) comes courtesy of the agency in charge of over-seeing the immoral and short-sighted destruction of what was perhaps the most-important wetland in the whole of the Yellow Sea - [...]

The Grand Canal: South Korea’s Grand Folly

By Charlie July 25, 2008 4 comments

As Mike mentioned in his Where are you birding this final weekend of July 2008? post, I’ve been wearing one of my other hats for the last two days as a co-founder of the conservation organisation Birds Korea. I was extremely happy/pleased/honoured to be able to help organise the UK part of a Europe-wide trip [...]