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A Japanese Endangered Animal: Black-faced Spoonbill
May 13th, 2011
Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) reports that out of 47,000 species of animals and plants surveyed, more than 17,000 could become extinct. IUCN made a list which is called the Red List. According to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the list is widely recognized as the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species. From its small beginning, the IUCN Red List has grown in size and complexity and now plays an increasingly prominent role in guiding conservation activities of governments, NGOs and scientific institutions.
In Japan, Ministry of the Environment made the Red Data book based on the Red List to protect endangered animals. Now you have a question “What is the Red Data Book (RDB)?” It is a list that Japanese Ministry of the Environment publishes periodically to understand which species are endangered. It is a useful tool to inform the fact about endangered animals to people.
One of the endangered animals Black-faced Spoonbill lives on the Korean peninsula, China, Japan’s ocean shores and tidelands. The Black-faced Spoonbill is a migratory bird. In summer, it hangs out on the Korean peninsula and takes care of the kids and moves to Taiwan or Japan in winter. Black-faced Spoonbill makes his habitat in East Asian area that why they are sometimes called “Asian bird.” Today, their home areas were taken by people by building factories and farms, so it is disappearing quickly. It would be worse that Black-faced Spoonbill lives in the same area because they will be extinct if they have problems where they flock.