Caribbean Partners get their “mangroove” on for World Wetlands Day
Grupo Jaragua and Sociedad Ornitológica Puertorriqueña, Inc. marked World Wetlands Day with programmes aimed at raising awareness of the value and benefits delivered by the Caribbean’s shrinking coastal mangroves.
Continue reading...Lake Junín: protection and sustainable use of high Andean ecosystems
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
More efficient cooking stoves were designed for communities around Lake Junín as a way of encouraging a better use of the high Andean peatland, or champa, an important habitat for migratory birds. Certified models of the cooking stove, adapted to local conditions, were built by members of the Management Committee and the local community. To [...]
Continue reading...Lago Junín: protegiendo y aprovechando sosteniblemente la champa
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Se diseñaron cocinas mejoradas para las comunidades del lago Junín como mecanismo para impulsar el mejor uso y aprovechamiento de la turba o “champa”, hábitat importante para aves migratorias. Se usó un modelo certificado de cocina mejorada, el cual fue adecuado a las condiciones de la zona, y las cocinas fueron construidas por miembros del [...]
Continue reading...Empowering Local Champions for Africa’s Great Lakes
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Empowering Local Champions for Africa’s Great Lake
Continue reading...Empowering Local Communities in Fiji
Friday, March 1, 2013
Fiji's Sisi Initiative Site Support Group was recently celebrated with an award ceremony in the Natewa Tunuloa IBA for winning their Equator Prize 2012. During the ceremony Sisi announced how their community protected forest is benefiting their fisheries, and how they are also starting an ambitious new project in their IBA...
Continue reading...Nabukelevu youth benefit from their sustainable livelihood project
Monday, February 25, 2013
The Nabukelevu Site Support Group (SSG) was set up in 2007 to promote the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources in Mount Nabukelevu, Kadavu, Fiji. The group has gone from strength to strength in protecting their IBA, developing alternative livelihoods and providing for their future. The SSG are currently selling honey from the IBA and investing the profits in their children's education...
Continue reading...SPNL receives “Best Practice” Award from the United Nations for improving the living environment through Hima system
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL – BirdLife in Lebanon) recently received an international ‘best practice’ award for their work at the Qolieleh Hima site, where they are preserving the coast and improving living conditions for local people.
Continue reading...China Coastal Waterbird Census wins Ford Green Award
Friday, January 25, 2013
The China Coastal Waterbird Census has been awarded second prize in the Nature Conservation Pioneer Award category of the Ford Green Awards 2012
Continue reading...New video showcases community project in Fiji
Friday, December 14, 2012
BirdLife Pacific has released a new video about a community conservation project in Fiji...
Continue reading...Sustainable utilization of wetland resources by a Local Conservation Group: Case of Nyabarongo Wetlands, Rwanda.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Wetlands, birds and people benefit from each other in Rwanda
Continue reading...Una Introducción a la Conservación y a los Derechos Humanos Para los Socios de BirdLife International
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Una Introducción a la Conservación y a los Derechos Humanos Para los Socios de BirdLife International brinda una visión general de algunos de los derechos humanos relevantes en el contexto de la conservación.
Continue reading...Petrels fuel Fijian exchange programme
Friday, November 2, 2012
Community members from two BirdLife Fiji Programme Site Support Groups recently visited a NatureFiji-MareqetiViti project on Gau Island to learn about petrel conservation techniques...
Continue reading...Empowering the Grassroots Megaposter
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
BirdLife has won the COP 11 Jury Choice Award for the “Mega-poster” exhibition and competition organised by the CBD Secretariat’s Biodiversity for Development Unit.
Continue reading...Children’s Festival in Lebanon celebrates the “Secrets of Bird Migration and Forests of Hope”
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
A day full of environmental activities attracted more than 150 students aged between 8 and 12 from Aanjar and its neighboring villages in Lebanon under the theme of “The Secrets of Bird Migration and Forests of Hope”.
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