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Title
The rediscovery of Myanmar’s Jerdon’s Babbler Chrysomma altirostre altirostre
Author(s)
Rheindt, F. E.; Tizard, R.; Pwint, N.; Lin, N.
Published
2014
Publisher
Birding Asia
Abstract
In Asia’s ongoing biodiversity crisis, some of the birds that have become most threatened with extinction are grassland species. The mighty Asian rivers—the Indus, Ganga, Brahmaputra, Ayeyarwady (formerly Irrawaddy), Mekong and Yangtze—once flowed through extensive savannahlike bush and grasslands grazed by large mammals, and were inhabited by a distinct and partly endemic avifauna. When the cultivation of rice and other crops commenced 7,000–10,000 years ago, Asia’s characteristic grassland fauna was the first to suffer from the impact of humans. Agricultural intensification in the last few decades has exacerbated the level of habitat destruction. With most of the large mammals long gone, much of Asia’s grassland avifauna is now beginning to face extinction (Wright et al. 2012).
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