Towards the end of 2017 the world held its breath as the USA and the DPRK/North Korea squared up to each other. Remarkably just a few months later at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics delegations from both the host nation South Korea and North Korea marched together under a Korean Unification Flag, and – less high-profile but nevertheless important – the DPRK joined the Ramsar Convention, an inter-governmental agreement on the wise use of wetlands.
In this interview Charlie talks with his brother, Dr Nial Moores, a South Korean resident and conservationist on his experiences bird surveying in the DPRK gathering data that was used by the government to determine which sites they would list under Ramsar.
• Birds Korea (external link)
• English-language articles on visits to the DPRK (external link)
• Hanns Seidel Foundation (external link)
• The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to become the 170th Contracting Party to the Convention on Wetlands (external link)