Conservationists plot a food drop to save migratory shorebirds from starvation

Conservationists from around the world are warning huge numbers of migratory shorebirds could starve without human intervention in China, and they're planning a food drop to help. One of the coldest winters in decades in a nature reserve in eastern China has wiped out the clam population, the major food source for the critically endangered Great Knot. The International Union for Conservation of Nature list the Great Knot as endangered, while the Australian Government considers it to be critically endangered.

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