Sponsored by the Department of Environment Quality Promotion, the Bird Conservation Society of Thailand has launched a three-year project to conserve shore birds and their habitats in the Inner Gulf of Thailand since June 2008. This area is known to be home of several endangered migratory birds such as the Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmaeus ) and Nordmann’s Greenshank (Tringa guttifer), both of which number less than 1,000 birds worldwide.We are now recruiting volunteers to help us strengthen knowledge among local communities and also involve local youth groups in an attempt to save these birds and their threatened habitats. These volunteers will be BCST’s ambassadors to organize networks among residents of coastal areas in the Chonburi, Chachoengsao, Samut Prakarn, Bangkok, Samut Sakorn, Samut Songkhram and Petchaburi.Our volunteers will arrange educational programmes for local schools in some coastal provinces around the Inner Gulf and raise awareness about an importance of wetlands and shorer birds conservation before it is too late.From the start of the Inner Gulf Conservation Project, we had organized many activities;
1. Junior Bird Watching Project. BSCT arranged bird watching for students and teachers in ten schools from Samut Sakorn province.2. BSCT participated in the 7th Shorebird Festival, organized by Khok Kham Nature Consevation Club in February, 2008.3. Senior researcher from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; Paul Donald, visited area under the Inner Gulf Conservation Project in February and met and discussed the situation with Petchaburi’s Tambon Pak Thale officials and also with Somchai Nimnuan a BCST researcher researching the critically endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper.4. BCST together with Tambon Pak Talae officials met with the Petchaburi province governor to the Inner Gulf Conservation Project to responsible provincial agencies.
5. In March, BCST assisted and advised Charoen Pokphan Foods (CPF) owner to be implemented bird friendly working practice at Khao Takhrao Petchaburi.
6. In April, the Department of the Environment Quality Promotion approved to sponsor BCST‘s three-year plan of the Inner Gulf Conservation Project.
7. In May, BCST stared working with Tawithapisek 2 School to set up a Nature Conservation Centre in the school compound.
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