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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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In August 2016, the newly planned Chinese Belt and Road harbour development inside the most valuable 9 km2 / 3.5 Yet, the environmental problems are pulling people together, uniting the people with very different political views with the simplest of all agendas: “We want to breathe clean air, we want clean tap water.”

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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The year 2016 was not a particularly birdy year for me, mostly because I didn’t get to go on business trips to Indonesia or Kazakhstan, as was frequently the case during the last few years. I did not see any lifers whatsoever in 2016, making it my first lifer-free year since around 2010. 1, my best bird of the year… 10.

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