Fundraising campaign for endangered bird garners support from public
Posted on 2021-12-31 17:06:01
A fundraising campaign aimed at helping a critically endangered bird that migrates to Matsu every summer has reportedly raised almost half of its target amount in less than two weeks.
The Wild Bird Society of Taipei says it had raised over $456-thousand NT for its Chinese crested tern conservation plan as of this morning, less than a fortnight after it started an online campaign on Dec. 18-th.
The society says the Chinese crested tern has been listed as a critically endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with an estimated 100 of them living in the wild today.
The WBST said it was hoping to raise NT$1 million to set up new CCTV cameras on an island called Tiechien in the Matsu archipelago, where a group of Chinese crested terns makes its home every year from May to September after traveling from Southeast Asia to breed.
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