Song Do tidal-flats

N 37°22'4.35"; E 126°41'16.58"


Description

Located in Incheon City, tidal-flats in Song Do were formerly very extensive (>5000 ha), and part of the massive Gyeonggi Bay tidal-flat system. The Gyeonggi Bay system has a tidal range during spring tides of >9m, and broad tidal-flats that until the 1980s were continuous at low tide along very approximately 100 km of coast north-south and around large near-shore islands, north to include Yeongjong and Ganghwa Islands, and south to Namyang and Asan Bays.
There is now only one large and complex area of tidal-flat remaining at Song Do and lies between Song Do to the north, and Sorae and Oido towns to the south, and is comprised of approximately 800 ha of tidal-flats and 400 ha of sea-shallows at low tide, fed by the Sorae creek.

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Articles


SAVE Int.'s Wake-Up Call: Restore - Not Reclaim! (PDF)


Spoonbill Action Voluntary Echo International (SAVE)
June 2009


Birds Australia's Statement of Concern: Reclamation Proposal for Song Do Tidal Flats
May 2009


AWSG states that Song Do development is not consistent with the goals of the EAAF Partnership
May 2009


Large-scale Wetland Reclamation of Song Do Tidal-flat Approved
March 2009


The Destruction continues…
Song Do's internationally important tidal-
flats "reclaimed"

April 2005


Last call for
Song Do

December 2003


Song Do:
"Relict"
Tidal-flat

February 2003


In the Media

Jan 6, 2010 Will N.C. State, and Duke University extinguish a threatened bird in Asia?

Sep 29, 2009 South Korea’s First Eco-Development

Aug 28, 2009 Letter to Lee administration: Save the Songdo Tidal Flat