The Environment Ministry plans to release crested ibises next year in central Japan's earthquake-hit Noto region to ...

The prosperity this created left the island with unique cultural traditions ... and meet the man who rescued the Japanese crested ibis from extinction to Sado's current population of 500 birds.

Yoshinori Kaneko, 65, a veterinarian on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture, first met Kin the Japanese crested ibis in 1991. Every time he went to Kin’s cage to feed her, she would screech in ...

and the Japanese crested ibis became extinct in 2003. In 1999, China donated a pair of crested ibises to Japan that were released and bred in the wild on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture ...