One of my friends and my bandmate wrote a song about this recently. According to him, a wetland used by birds migrating from Russia to Australia is facing “development” on the order of being paved with concrete so that “love-hotels” (that is, by-the-hour sex hotels, not uncommon here as an escape from repressive home life) can be constructed.
I’m collecting articles for students to debate about it with some information at their fingertips. It’s probablt the first big environmentalist issue I’ve heard about since coming here, except for the silly culinary preference for female crabs which is destroying the crab population in the Korean region…
Anyway, you can see an article here and a protestor’s info-site here… the latter being somewhat convincing from many perspectives, in my opinion. There’s also an international protest page here with a form letter to President Roh, too.