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Celebrating Migratory Bird Ambassadors in Kenya

Friday, May 24, 2013

Lake Elementaita which is held in high regard as an Important Bird Area, Ramsar Site and World Heritage Site is a key breeding site for the Great White Pelicans as well as a wildlife haven.

World Migratory Bird Day 2013 highlights importance of site networks for migratory birds

Saturday, May 11, 2013

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World Migratory Bird Day 2013 highlights importance of site networks for migratory birds

This weekend 11-12 May is World Migratory Bird Day 2013 is being celebrated in over 65 countries including events held by BirdLife Partners.

Caribbean Seabird Tracking Pilot Study Gives Encouraging Results

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

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Caribbean Seabird Tracking Pilot Study Gives Encouraging Results

Dog Island is an uninhabited offshore islet lying northwest of the Caribbean UK Overseas Territory (UKOT) of Anguilla, and is considered to be the second most important individual island for seabirds in the eastern Caribbean, despite being only about 200 ha in size.

IUCN WCC Day 5: Where are the most important places on earth for seabirds?

Monday, September 10, 2012

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IUCN WCC Day 5: Where are the most important places on earth for seabirds?

It’s Day 5 of the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju, the Republic of Korea. Over 8,000 delegates from around the world are meeting to explore many of our most pressing environmental and development challenges, and how nature is intricately linked to solving these issues. BirdLife is well represented at the meeting, with around 30 [...]

Scale up work on poverty reduction and biodiversity policy making pays off in Dakatcha woodlands in Kenya

Thursday, July 12, 2012

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Scale up work on poverty reduction and biodiversity policy making pays off in Dakatcha woodlands in Kenya

Birdlife Africa Partnership got a renewed boost to its work in Poverty reduction and policy making when the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID) gave some additional funding amounting to Euros, 500,000 in October 2010.

Mountain Chicken’s portrait

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

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The Mountain Chicken Project, funded by the UK government’s Darwin Initiative and executed by the Department of Environment of Montserrat and Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, is pleased to announce the publication of a poster and a brochure aimed at raising awareness of the Critically Endangered Mountain Chicken Leptodactylus fallax on Montserrat.

Director, Important Bird Areas Program for Audubon

Monday, June 25, 2012

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The Director will help implement Audubon's new strategic plan around hemispheric bird conservation organized around flyways.

Serengeti highway back on World Heritage agenda

Friday, June 22, 2012

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Serengeti highway back on World Heritage agenda

BirdLife remains concerned that development of the eastern stretch of the road is proceeding, and urges that any transport solutions must be sustainable and that environmental issues should be properly taken into account.

Important Bird Areas incorporated into Kazakh legislation

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

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The recent revision of Kazakhstan's nature-protection legislation has resulted in the inclusion of the term "Important Bird Area” (IBA) in the law on Specially Protected Nature Areas in Kazakhstan.

Monitoring birds in Montserrat’s Centre Hills

Monday, April 16, 2012

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Forestry staff from Montserrat’s Department of Environment are currently in the field conducting the annual bird monitoring exercise to determine the bird populations in the island’s Centre Hills Important Bird Area.

Haiti´s inland mangroves disappear under rising waters

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

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As part of a Haiti-wide mangrove survey, the Fondation pour la Protection de la Biodiversité Marine (FoProBiM) has undertaken visits to Trou Caïman and Lac Azuéi Important Bird Areas to search these brackish lakes for remnants of inland mangroves.

BirdLife South Africa’s first Important Bird Areas newsletter

Monday, February 6, 2012

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The newsletter includes updates on environmental education, Marine IBAs and community development.

A voyage for Caribbean Seabirds

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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Documenting new seabird-colony Important Bird Areas, finding previously undocumented colonies and colonies thought to be extirpated: these are just some of the exciting discoveries reported within Environmental Protection in the Caribbean’s (EPIC’s) ground-breaking Seabird Breeding Atlas of the Lesser Antilles.