Joel Sartoreのインスタグラム(joelsartore) - 7月22日 04時32分

Meet the 13,000th species to join the Photo Ark - a spoon-billed sandpiper @wwtslimbridge in Gloucestershire, UK. This is one of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project undertaken as part of wider work to save this critically endangered species.

With the population of spoon-billed sandpipers plummeting, mainly due to habitat loss, the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) took a leading role in efforts to buy time to reverse this trend. This included a conservation breeding project at WWT headquarters in Slimbridge where significant advances were made in incubation and rearing methods. These methods have since been used in many other species recovery projects.

The spoon-billed sandpiper is a ‘flagship’ species for the conservation of vital wetlands for migratory waterbirds along the East Asian-Australasian flyway – which stretches from the far north of Russia to the south of New Zealand. Protecting these charismatic wading birds, known affectionately as the spoonie, will help save millions of other birds and the wetlands they inhabit.

Follow @wwtslimbridge to learn more about the incredible work WWT is doing and how you can get involved.

The National Geographic Society (@insidenatgeo) is proud to support Explorer Joel Sartore in his quest to photograph the world's species for the National Geographic Photo Ark. #bird #animal #spoonbill #spoonie #wildlife #video #footage #endangered #PhotoArk

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