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| | Suncheon Bay symposium |
 | | Suncheon Bay, the only regular wintering site for Hooded Cranes Grus monacha in Korea and also an important site for Relict Gulls Larus relictus and the globally threatened Saunders's Gulls Larus saundersi is currently unprotected. |
 | | However, there is much opposition from local people, worried that the establishment of a protected area will restrict their daily lives and cause the shelving of a river 'improvement' plan, meaning that their land would be liable to flooding. |
 | | Financial and technical support came from the Japan Fund for Global Environment, the Ministry of Environment of Korea, the City Government of Suncheon, the National Institute of Environmental Research of Korea, Amur Socio-ecological Union of Russia and the Environment Agency of Japan. |
| www.birdlife.org /news/news/2000/06/35.html (244 words) |
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