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    Lightbulb Mission to save rarest sandpiper

    Conservationists have embarked on a mission to save one of the world's rarest birds, the spoon-billed sandpiper, from extinction.

    The captive population of spoon-billed sandpipers will be housed in Moscow Zoo for quarantine purposes, then moved to a specially built unit at the headquarters of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, UK.

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    Looks like they have their work cut out on this, as even if they manage to boost the numbers, how can they maintain them without continuation of the captive breeding?
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