***Hankyoreh article on destruction of Danyang Ssukbujaengi flower: Endangered Plants Being Dredged up in 4 Rivers Constructionhttp://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/415980.html
***Bird Report-Impact of 4 River Project on Water Birds( this is for you Barry!) http://www.birdskorea.org/Habitats/4-Rivers/BK-HA-Preliminary-Report-2010.shtmlit just came out in march, and it's in english and korea for your downloading pleasure.
**LEE MYUNG BAK ON BIODIVERSITY DOC- go p 9 http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Noapw6JWVGUJ:www.cbd.int/iyb/doc/prints/iyb-gincana.pdf+biodiversity+is+our+life+lee+myung+bak&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi16kxKa730_A9Ey18K4VtJv9LN6Leh3c8H5akvfF2bKZYAiha-YuxL1GClag5nLUj_5UxtdzcD8932DVGjP9LPYyGWe5mzexTMPn1JoIsrs-0bN-kBA0aPa0n5lixPwVsKsmIY&sig=AHIEtbQ2XHqrgcIFRTCqDOyk08kwN-B0ow
Regarding biodiversity and environmental health, it is really quite shocking to read the things he says and then compare that to what I saw yesterday at the river, where living creatures are clearly dying and becomoing endangered due to loss of habitat( and then there is the possibiity of eutrophication of river water in the future, which would lead to sever loss of biodiversity)
**World Wetland Network Letter to Lee Myung Back and ROK asking them to STOP the project( written in december of 2009) http://www.wwt.org.uk/files/wli/WWN/WWN4riversletterfinal.pdf
**12.) KFEM environmental activist Ma-Young's blog: http://koreawetlands.blogspot.com/ He is super informed, as he is a leading member of KFEM Reading his blog will give you much solid information on the 4 river project's destruction of Korea's rivers.
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