Decenas de miles de aves, incluyendo especies raras y en peligro de extinción, acuden cada año a un refugio insólito ubicado entre las dos gigantes urbanas de Hong Kong y Shenzhen en la ‘frontera de torres’ de la China continental.
Hasta 100.000 aves vuelan desde el Ártico Siberiano y Asia Central para pasar el invierno en los pantanos y marismas de Mai Po, en su migración anual hacia el sur hasta Australia y Nueva Zelanda.
Pero los conservacionistas dicen que este refugio en el «East Asian-Australasian flyway» -una de las principales rutas migratorias del mundo – está en peligro de romperse, cuando el gobierno y las compañías constructoras ojean el valioso terreno para desarrollarlo…
Tens of thousands of birds, including rare and endangered species, flock each year to an unlikely haven sandwiched between high-rise Hong Kong and Shenzhen, the towering frontier of mainland China.
Up to 100,000 birds fly in from as far as Arctic Siberia and Central Asia to winter in marshes squeezed between the two urban giants, or to rest and fatten-up on their annual migration as far south as Australia and New Zealand.
But conservationists say this haven on the «East Asian-Australasian flyway» — one of the world’s main migratory routes — is in danger of breaking up, as government and construction companies eye valuable land for development.[…] [www.mysinchew.com/node/35572]
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