We tracked 39 western flyway white-naped cranes (Antigone vipio) throughout multiple annual cycles from June 2017 to July 2020, using GSM-GPS loggers providing positions every 10-min describe migration routes and key staging areas used between their Mongolian breeding wintering in China’s Yangtze River Basin. The results demonstrated that migrated an average of 2556 km (±187.9 SD) autumn 2673 (...

The Braconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) species recorded from Turkey are listed, the present total number being 195. Changes with respect to the previous Turkish fauna are briefly annotated and the distributions for all the species in each of the 68 biogeographical provinces are presented. After the publication of our previous fauna, 173 species have been recorded as new to Turkey. Of these, 9...

Biodiversity conservation in protected areas requires strict legal limitations to land use. In the Civilian Control Zone (CCZ) of Republic Korea (ROK), military control has created an accidental sanctuary for world's rarest crane species: white-naped (Antigone vipio) and red-crowned (Grus japonensis). Yet varying use demands on CCZ by stakeholders have caused disagreements achieving cooperative...