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Evolving out of a website-based network (WBKE) established in 2002, Birds Korea was formally launched by four co-founders in late 2004 as a national organization, dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats in Korea and the wider Yellow Sea Eco-region.
As of December 2007, we now have approximately 300 (fee-paying) domestic and 450 overseas members; regularly-updated websites in both Korean (http://www.birdskorea.or.kr) and English; an office in Busan; and a decision-making (vote-holding) structure of post-holders and formal advisors that is also composed of both Korean nationals and non-nationals. We are also increasingly supported by a small but growing number of volunteers and donors − both within and outside of Korea. As appropriate to our mandate and aims, Birds Korea also actively seeks working partnerships with others, including local groups and communities, key government bodies, and international (or transnational) organizations. Birds Korea, for example, became the first Korean NGO partner of the Yellow Sea Partnership, and since 2006, we have enjoyed a partnership with the Australasian Wader Studies Group, co-managing the Saemangeum Shorebird Monitoring Program. This balanced local-national-international structure and work-approach remains unique in the Korean context. We welcome your support and involvement, whatever your skills, and wherever you live.
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