May 1st, 2013 at 1:26 pm » Comments (1)

A male pheasant flies in Namdaecheon Stream in Gangneung City, Gangwon Province, on April 22, 2013, on a fine spring day. (Yonhap)

November 10th, 2012 at 3:21 am » Comments (13)

It would be pretty cool if South Korea is able to get foxes sustainably returned to the wild, but as this below article shows it will be extremely difficult: The Korea National Park Service began its ambitious plan to bring back the endangered Korean red fox by releasing a pair into the wild, where it hoped they would thrive. But six days later, the female fox was found dead in the mountains. There are fewer than 30 red foxes in Korea, most living in zoos. The Korea National Park Service,
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November 21st, 2009 at 7:58 pm » Comments (10)

If you are ever in the Chorwon area around Feburary you can see a number of these cranes there: If your travel itinerary for coming months includes places such as Iran, North Korea, China and Tibet, chances would seem pretty good that you are a diplomat being dispatched to some of the world’s hot spots. Or, maybe, you’re George Archibald. Archibald is the co-founder and senior conservationist with the International Crane Foundation near here and he spends about half of every year traveling to distant corners of the world on
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August 31st, 2009 at 9:09 pm » Comments (3)

Recently a New Zealand production company has been busy filming a wildlife documentary along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that divides the Korean peninsula: Over the past few months NHNZ, a production company based out of New Zealand, has been filming an unlikely documentary in Korea’s Demilitarized Zone. The film has nothing to do with the war between North and South Korea, or even politics in general. It’s about the wildlife that inhabit the 150 mile strip of land between the two countries. More on the documentary below. The film follows
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September 22nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm » Comments (4)

Some Korean researchers were able to capture on film recently some dolphins trying to aid a sick or injured dolphin to shallow waters along the Korean coast: In all the time I have spent in Korea which has included plenty of time near the ocean and traveling on boats, I have never seen a dolphin.  Has anyone else seen dolphins along the Korean coast?