SEOGWIPO, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries released 18 sea turtles in the waters at Jeju Island’s Jungmun Saekdal Beach on Friday. Eight artificially incubated hawksbill sea turtles and green turtles were released as well as a rescued green turtle and a loggerhead sea turtle. The ministry reported that there [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Institute of Ecology (NIE), affiliated with the environment ministry, said Thursday it is conducting research on improving breeding grounds to reintroduce storks, a first-class endangered wildlife species, into the country. The study will be conducted jointly with Russia’s Amur branch of the World Wildlife Fund. By next [...]
JEJU, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A second-grade endangered species, the Japanese Night Heron, has been spotted again in South Korea after more than a decade. The Korea Association for Bird Protection on Tuesday released the results of a recent bird survey that confirmed a pair of Japanese Night Herons were living in a forest [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Environment has launched a project to bring back scarabs to South Korea, which disappeared in the 1970s. The ministry and the National Institute of Ecology (NIE) announced on Sunday that they recently brought 200 scarabs from Mongolia to restore their population. Scarabs, classified as Level II [...]
INCHEON, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A special habitat facility will be built in Incheon’s Songdo International Business District to protect endangered bird species. The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority will create a wetland habitat that does not fully submerge even during high tide, allowing birds to rest after feeding at a nearby tidal flat. [...]
JEJU, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — An endangered species has been found near the planned site of the Jeju Animal Theme Park project, raising calls for a precise ecological survey to be carried out. A task force opposing the theme park said Wednesday that it found stag beetles while working on repairing banners across the [...]
WONJU, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Environment plans to carry out a restoration project in limestone mines which will involve replanting endangered species of plants that had have been wiped out from the area. The Wonju Regional Environmental Office (WREO), jointly with the Nature Environment Research Park and Halla Cement Corp., South [...]
JEJU, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Claiming that endangered species inhabit the site of the Bijarim Road expansion project on Jeju Island, which was suspended due to controversy over damage to a redwood forest more than two months ago, the government urged Jeju to stop construction work, investigate the situation and come up with countermeasures. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The pelagic cormorant has been chosen as a species to protect by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries. The decision was made to protect the decreasing number of pelagic cormorants due to climate change. The pelagic cormorant is also registered on the watch list of the International Union for [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The demilitarized zone between North and South Korea is home to 5,929 species of wild organisms, including 101 species on the brink of extinction. This is according to a study carried out by the National Institute of Ecology between 2014 and 2017 in various areas of the DMZ. Resources [...]