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 SAVE's mission is to save the endangered Black-faced Spoonbill (Platalea minor) from extinction by protecting important habitat and cultures while promoting sustainable development throughout the bird's migratory flyway.
Founded in 1997, SAVE began as a volunteer group of professors, students, and staff from the University of California, Berkeley and National Taiwan University. For the first 10 years SAVE focused its work in the area around the Tsengwen Estuary in Taiwan, wintering site to over half the world population of Black-faced Spoonbills. Working with local fishermen, national legislators, and Taiwan environmental organizations, SAVE successfully battled the development of a petrochemical plant in this crucial habitat site and proposed ecotourism as the sustainable alternative. SAVE also worked to ensure that the master plan for the Yunchianan National Scenic Area (one outcome of the Taiwan spoonbill fight) included adequate stepping stone habitat for spoonbills as the population recovers and grows.
In addition to ongoing protection efforts in Taiwan, SAVE has expanded its work to include the spoonbill's entire flyway. SAVE recently began working to preserve the breeding habitat in South Korea, where mudflat destruction, diking of wetlands, government plans for industrial and power plants, highway construction, and residential/commercial/university development is occurring or proposed. These same forces threaten local fishermen and rice farmers as well as some of the most important cultural sites in Korea's history (see our Action Alert and Campaign pages for what you can do to help save the Song Do Tidal Flats) .
To find out more about SAVE International, click here.
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