On Sunday 16th March 2008, my wife and I went to Chatuchak Market in Bangkok to do some shopping. I took the opportunity to take a look at the animal section and was appalled to see large numbers of birds, mammals and reptiles being sold illegally. Squirrels were particularly numerous as were reptiles, but it [...]
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Thailand Birding: Muang Boran Fishponds
March 10th, 2008 
Nick On Saturday morning (08/03/08) I finally got myself back to Muang Boran Fishponds in Samut Prakarn province – a place which used to be one of “local patches” in Thailand. Despite the slightly convoluted way in, I remembered how to get there and was on site by about 6.45am. It seemed little had changed here [...]
Vultures in Trouble in Africa?
November 2nd, 2007 Nick Some worrying news has appeared on the Birdlife International website about the drug diclofenac being found for sale at a vets in Tanzania. This drug has been the driving force behind the population collapse of vulture species that were formerly common in Asia – resulting in them being critically endangered now. The drug has now [...]
Earth in the Balance
October 23rd, 2007 Nick A few days ago I wrote a short book review on Al Gore’s book “Earth in the Balance” on bookreviewblog. For anyone who is interested in environmental ideas this is an excellent source of information. Gore does a great job of taking a holistic view of environmental problems and this book was published in 1992, [...]
Yamoogle search engine for carbon offsetting
October 15th, 2007 Nick For those who are into carbon offsetting there is a new search engine on the web which donates all its profits to recognised carbon offsetting projects. Yamoogle.com Carbon offsetting is a dubious science and most certainly should not be a substitute to becoming less wasteful and less polluting at a personal level. However, if it [...]
Restore Saemangeum for Migratory Shorebirds
September 19th, 2007 Nick A few days ago I received an e-mail about the disasterous mud flat reclaimation project at Saemangeum in South Korea. For those that don’t know, this estuary is (was?) one of the most important sites for migratory shorebirds in the east Asian flyway with internationally important numbers of Spoon-billed Sandpiper and Nordmann’s Greenshank. Since the [...]
101 Ways to Help Birds
February 6th, 2007 Nick Most birdwatchers would like to help birds, but many people don’t go beyond feeding them in their back garden. Garden bird feeding is great, but for serious bird lovers there are lots of things that can be done to help birds.People who have gardens have a great resource that they can manage for birds and [...]
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