Adult Spoon-billed Sandpiper © Martin J. McGill WWT |
This is how this can be achieved, by captive breeding coupled with conservation work along the bird's flyway.
Spoon-billed Sandpiper chick hatched at Slimbridge 2012 © WWT |
This is most definitely NOT what we want, a bird that is lost to the world through our own ignorance and lack of action.
Distressing sight of a dead Spoon-billed Sandpiper that confronted the team in Russia © Martin J. McGill WWT |
Remember that conservation work carried out in the field will also benefit many other wader species.
There is still time for us to save them from a fate worse than death; EXTINCTION!
There is still time for us to save them from a fate worse than death; EXTINCTION!
Their future is in our hands!
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