Field Projects
- Restoration of Red-crowned Cranes:
Anbyon Plain, DPRK
PROJECT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:
Project Goal
To restore the Red-crowned Cranes as a winter resident on the Anbyon Plain
Project Objectives
- To strengthen farming practices and conservation education at Pisan Cooperative Farm to help the farmers and to assure availability of grain to feed cranes and consolidate a willingness to help the cranes.
- To use captive cranes to attract wild cranes to land at the Pisan Cooperative Farm.
- To feed and protect the wild cranes when they return to the Anbyon Plain.
- To study the cranes and monitor the avifauna of the Anbyon Plain.
- To use this international cooperative program as a stepping stone to the conservation of Red-crowned Cranes and their habitats in other regions of the Korean peninsula.
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