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(Message started by: Project Officer on Apr 24^th, 2004, 10:27am)

Title: BirdLife - Saving Asia's Threatened Birds
Post by Project Officer on Apr 24^th, 2004, 10:27am

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simba Chan"
To: "Hong Kong Bird Watching Society"
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 8:53 PM
Subject: 'Saving Asia's Threatened Birds' Downloads

>
> Dear friends,
>
> You may have heard of the BirdLife International Red Data Book: Threatened
> Birds of Asia, which can be accessed from the website below:
>
> http://www.rdb.or.id/index.html
>
> The Red Data Book is a very big book (in fact, a book of two volumes).
> BirdLife International has made a more 'digested' form of the Red Data
> Book, highlighting issues and habitats important for conservation in Asia.
> It was published in late 2003 as 'Saving Asia's Threatened Birds'
>
> Introduction of the book can be accessed from the website below:
>
> http://www.birdlife.net/action/science/species/asia_strategy/index.html
>
>
> You can now downlaod the PDF files of chapters of this book at the
> following website:
>
> http://www.birdlife.net/action/science/species/asia_strategy/pdfs.html
>
> The important habitats that are found in China are (Hong Kong and Macao is
> covered by W10 - and almost by F03):
>
> F01 Boreal & northern temperate forests (pdf, 567kb) : North East China
> F03 South-east Chinese forests (pdf, 530kb) : Central and southern China,
> including Taiwan
> F04 Sino-Himalayan mountain forests (pdf, 760kb) : South West China and
> Shanxi, Hebei mountains
> F06 Indo-Burmese forests (pdf, 695kb) : Hainan and southern Yunnan
> G01 Eurasian steppes & desert (pdf, 371kb) : Northern and North West China
> W03 Amur, Ussuri and Sungari river basins (pdf, 450kb) : North East China
> W05 Steppe wetlands (pdf, 397kb) : Northern and North West China
> W06 Yellow Sea coast (pdf, 460kb) : Coast of Yellow Sea (Huang Hai) and Bo Hai
> W07 Central Chinese wetlands (pdf, 321kb) : Central China
> W08 Lower Yangtze basin (pdf, 599kb) : Yangtze (Chang Jiang) Basin
> W09 Tibetan plateau (pdf, 279kb) : Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou
> W10 China Sea coast (pdf, 435kb) : Coastal South East China, including
> Taiwan and Hainan
>
> Part of this book is now being translated into Chinese.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Simba Chan
> Wild Bird Society of Japan