'A high risk of bird strikes': Airport on blighted Jamboree site halted A Korean court canceled the Saemangeum International Airport project, citing procedural flaws in the environmental impact assessment and significant risks to wildlife.

A court has halted the government’s plan to build a new international airport in #Saemangeum, ruling that the project’s environmental impact assessment had serious procedural flaws.

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The Gochang Getbol Ramsar Centre, South Korea.

The huge tidal gates of the Saemangeum reclamation project.

One of the cabins at the environmental protestors' camp at Saemangeum with a dead Spoon-billed Sandpiper artwork.

Curlew artwork on a tour bus at the Gochang Getbol Ramsar Centre.

Happy #WorldCurlewDay from #SouthKorea. A privilege to be representing @rspb.bsky.social supporting flyway partners working to protect & monitor the vast Getbol (tidal flats) & its globally important #waders #shorebirds. Emotional day yesterday visiting the #Saemangeum reclamation project. 😢

What we have done to the birds, the kids and the planet is simply not okay. #wsj2023 #saemangeum #Jamboree2023. If #scouts are supposed to be 'always prepared', we must learn a lesson today. "Last Murmurations of a Destroyed Wetland" from @KoreaExpose....

Begegnung feiern! Junge Menschen aus aller Welt begegnen sich beim #Weltjugendtag in #Lissabon und beim #WorldScoutJamboree in #Saemangeum. Eine großartige Zeit sei ihnen gegönnt: #WYD2023 #WSJ2023 #Pfadfinder #Jugendarbeit (via @HK_Aktuell)