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NABU International launches fund to support families of rangers killed in action

A Ranger Family Support Fund was launched in Ethiopia last week to provide financial assistance to the families that are left behind from rangers who lose their lives to poachers

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Baltic seaduck take a dive

On Wednesday 1 December, a new report presenting the results of a census of wintering waterbirds in the Baltic Sea has been launched. The studies reveal that overall numbers have declined by more than 40% since the 1990s.

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Grid operators and environmental organisations team up to promote sustainable modernisation of electricity grids

Nineteen grid operators and environmental NGOs signed the European Grid Declaration on Electricity Network Development and Nature Conservation in Europe on 10 November 2011 in Brussels, in an open signatory process.

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NABU launches Fishing for Litter initiative in Germany.

The Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) has started the Fishing for Litter initiative

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NABU commemorates extinct species

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.

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Claus Mayr, Director of European Affairs at NABU (BirdLife in Germany)

My name is Claus Mayr, and since 1992 I have been working for NABU (BirdLife in Germany). I started my work in NABU as IBA officer, but already with a broader focus on European and international biodiversity policies and Conventions, namely the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), also known as the “Bonn Convention”.

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