"The Oriental White Stork (Ciconia boyciana) was a typical species of bird living in Satoyama areas in Japan. The storks inhabited all of Japan about 200 years ago but they began to decrease in number, drawing closer to extinction from over-hunting, agricultural chemicals, and habitat-loss and -deterioration. The Tajima Region of Hyogo prefecture was the last breeding area for storks in Japan. Hyogo prefecture started conservation activities in 1955 and captive breeding in 1965, and succeeded in breeding in 1989. The reintroduction project was planned according to the IUCN guidelines. We restored rural environments, especially paddy fields and rivers as habitats for the storks. We started to release the storks into the wild in Toyooka City in 2005 for a total of 27 storks by 2010, all of which were monitored by ground and satellite tracking to analyze the ecology and their behavior. The storks started breeding in 2006 and have been successful since 2007 in the wild. The population has been growing, reaching a total of 40 birds in 2010. The young storks that hatched in the wild showed a wide-ranged dispersal all over Japan, several of which stayed outside Toyooka City. " Source
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