[/floatr]Reuters: Japan, China may join hands to rescue crested ibis
Diplomatic ties between Japan and China may be fraught, but in a rare move, the Asian neighbours could cooperate in the near future to save an endangered species of bird...Chinese President Wen Jiabao is seen as likely to announce the gift of several Chinese crested ibises when he meets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this weekend...The feathery gift would be just the latest bilateral move to help save the crested ibis in Japan, a quest that began in 1998 with a similar presentation of two of the birds to Japan by China. Masaru Hasegawa, head of the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center on Sado island in northwest Japan, said he hoped the report was true but that he wasn't able to confirm or deny it. "We have been wishing for several years to get some more birds from China, mainly to help keep our birds from becoming too inbred," he added...more...
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