EU legislation to tackle invasive alien species long overdue
Invasive alien species are one of the five main drivers of biodiversity loss globally, and yet at EU level the current approach to this problem is a patchwork of inconsistent and uneven national legislation to tackle what is by its very nature an international problem. EU legislation to tackle this problem is now long overdue.
Continue reading...From the sands of the Sahara to the sands of CEMEX quarries
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Sand Martins make an amazing journey every winter from the Sahara to the UK to breed in piles of sand. This year, every CEMEX UK quarry will be creating the sheer banks of sand that Sand Martins love to make their homes in, as part of the CEMEX-BirdLife International partnership.
Continue reading...Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund provides US$10 million for biodiversity conservation in Indo-Burma Region
Thursday, December 13, 2012
After four years, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund’s investment in the Indo- Burma biodiversity hotspot has resulted in more than US$ 9.8 million in grants to 54 civil society organisations to conserve biodiversity in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.
Continue reading...Assessment of EU’s biodiversity efforts (Video interview)
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Konstantin Kreiser assesses the EU’s biodiversity efforts in an interview for Climate Change TV
Continue reading...300 million farmland birds lost since 1980 – How many more must we lose before changing course on the CAP?
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
The latest scientific data brought together by BirdLife International and the European Bird Census Council show that common farmland birds continue to decline in the EU: 300 million farmland birds have been lost since 1980.
Continue reading...Reflections on Rio – reaffirming and renewing rhetoric but has anything really changed?
Monday, June 25, 2012
As the 50,000 participants travel home after ten days of discussing The Future We Want, the outcome document from the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), it’s time to reflect on the substance of what was agreed.
Continue reading...Securing the web of life
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
The source of our food, medicines and clean water, as well the livelihoods of millions of people may be at risk with the rapid decline of the world’s animal and plant species according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Continue reading...MEPs adopt the “Gerbrandy” Report on biodiversity
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
On April 20th the European Parliament made a stand in support of biodiversity conservation and sustainable development when it adopted the “Motion for a European Parliament resolution on our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020”, authored by Dutch Liberal MEP Mr Gerben Jan Gerbrandy.
Continue reading...EU Environment Ministers fail to stand up for nature in face of farm lobby interests
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
The EU Environment Council conclusions on the EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy, show the interests of the farm lobby will weaken biodiversity protection.
Continue reading...BirdLife Europe calls for a renewables revolution in harmony with nature
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
With the launch of its new report, Meeting Europe’s Renewable Energy Targets in Harmony with Nature, in Brussels on 22 November, BirdLife Europe wants to show how we can meet our 2020 renewable energy targets without impacting on wildlife.
Continue reading...Environment Commissioners win a round for biodiversity on Cohesion policy, but harder CAP fight is still in balance
Thursday, October 6, 2011
The European Commission has made a timid step forward towards honoring its commitment to integrate biodiversity in its legislative proposal on the Cohesion Policy, one of the two main components of the EU Budget.
Continue reading...186 NGOs protest against Turkish draft law that could destroy the Anatolia region
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Representatives of 186 civil society associations gathered outside the Turkish Parliament on Monday in protests against Turkey’s contradictory and worrying ‘Nature and Biodiversity Conservation’ draft law.
Continue reading...NABU commemorates extinct species
Friday, October 15, 2010
NABU (BirdLife in Germany), organised a demonstration to send a strong message to the German government and the European Environment Ministers, which were finalising their position for the CBD COP10 in Nagoya.
Continue reading...BirdLife calls upon the EU to champion biodiversity in Nagoya and at home
Monday, October 4, 2010
BirdLife International handed in to the European Commissioner for the Environment, Mr Janez Potoƒçnik, its “message for Nagoya”.
Continue reading...Translator
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
News Map
- UPDATE: over 866,000 birds slaughtered so far this autumn in Cyprus! - Sign the petition to stop this now!
- 89,225 birds slaughtered…so far! - Sign the petition to stop it now!
- Help required to end hunting massacre in Nagaland, India
- SAVE Brasil calls on us all to join the campaign against changes to Brazil’s forest law
- Call for Proposals: 2012 Conservation Leadership Programme Awards
- Tragic impact on wildlife from New Zealand oil disaster
- Save the Danube - 'The Amazon of Europe'- from destruction!
- Panama Bay developers threaten to break the chain of shorebird stopover sites
- We need your vote to save the albatross
- A call to action for Australian birds
- Norita Scott Pezet: I have known Alberto Yanosky since our early days....
- Nick Askew: Congratulations Alberto. Well deserved indeed!...
- Colin Burnham: Don't you find that talking to brain dead homo sap...
- Eleazar O'Connor: More of these exchanges will certainly build a tre...
- Swati Gupte: We need to take a call on this mindless slaughteri...
- BirdLife World Congress, the most energising and inspiring event in the conservation calendar, opens in Ottawa
- Guyra’s Yanosky recognised as a leader of conservation in Latin America
- Suwarrow Blog 20 – A bright future for conservation in the Cook Islands
- State of Fiji's birds report launched
- Suwarrow Blog 18 - Farewell Suwarrow
- Formal protection reduces loss of natural land-cover at IBAs across Africa
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
1 Comment