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Restoring Pacific paradise

Friday, July 27, 2012

In total, 51% of all threatened birds are being driven towards extinction by invasive alien species. The problem is especially acute on oceanic islands where 75% of threatened birds are affected. In an effort to address this serious threat, the Pacific Partnership of BirdLife International has received renewed support from the David & Lucile Packard Foundation to protect globally important seabird colonies by eradicating invasive alien species...

Beck’s pulls in at the petrel station

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

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A BirdLife International survey in southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, has encountered the largest single aggregation of Critically Endangered Beck’s Petrel ever recorded.

2-year Anniversary of BirdLife’s Seabird petition: a good time to ask the Commission to keep its promises

Monday, June 11, 2012

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2-year Anniversary of BirdLife’s Seabird petition: a good time to ask the Commission to keep its promises

On 9 June 2010, BirdLife Europe delivered to Commissioner Maria Damanaki, EU Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and EU Fisheries, pledges of 23,000 European citizens who were concerned about the needless death of seabirds in EU waters as bycatch.

Protecting marine biodiversity on International Day of Biological Diversity

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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Protecting marine biodiversity on International Day of Biological Diversity

Marine Biodiversity is the theme for this year's International Day for Biological Diversity, celebrated today.

Experts meet in Montreal to ‘talk biodiversity’

Monday, April 30, 2012

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Delegates from 193 countries are preparing recommendations for the next Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of Parties (COP) in October in India.

Indian Ocean Tuna Commission moves to protect albatrosses

Thursday, April 26, 2012

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The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission has agreed to measures that, if appropriately implemented by tuna longline fishing vessels, will result in significant reductions in albatross mortality.

Using technology to protect biodiversity

Friday, April 13, 2012

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Using technology to protect biodiversity

The BirdLife partners in France, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the UK, are deploying unprecedented actions to protect the marine environment, through the project FAME (Future of the Atlantic Marine Environment, Interreg Programme 2010-2012). Amongst other, they have been tagging seabirds with mini-cameras, which recorded wonderful images.

Seabird species face extinction in remote UK islands

Friday, March 30, 2012

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They are more exotic than the gulls, gannets and terns of Britain's home coastlines, but many of the fascinating and charismatic species of birds on the remote shores of UK overseas territories are now close to extinction. In a report to the government, the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) warns 33 species of birds, including penguins, parrots and albatrosses, are now critically endangered across the remnants of the empire. And that means we have a duty to fulfil...

New review reveals worrying declines in the world’s seabirds

Friday, March 9, 2012

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The status of the world’s seabirds has deteriorated rapidly over recent decades and several species and many populations are now perilously close to extinction. These are the findings of a major new review published this week in the scientific journal Bird Conservation International.

National assessment shows Australians must work abroad to save their birds

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

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National assessment shows Australians must work abroad to save their birds

A newly published study shows Australians must work with international partners if they are to save all of Australia’s birds.

New stronghold for Japanese Murrelet found

Monday, January 23, 2012

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New stronghold for Japanese Murrelet found

A recent study led by the Wild Bird Society of Japan has found that the Izu Islands, on the Pacific side of Japan, hold the second largest concentration of the threatened Japanese Murrelet

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.

Invasive species Cast Away in Fiji

Thursday, December 1, 2011

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Goats and rats have been removed from two Fijian islands to protect their unique wildlife. “This is a massive achievement which will provide benefits for the iguanas, birds, plants and people of these islands”, said Sialesi Rasalato from BirdLife International.

Measures to protect UK albatrosses get them off the hook in the nick of time

Saturday, November 19, 2011

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One third of the world’s albatrosses nest on the South Atlantic UK Overseas Territories: the Falkland Islands; South Georgia; and Tristan da Cunha. ICCAT manages all tuna and swordfish fisheries in the Atlantic outside territorial waters. These measures will significantly reduce the number of birds being killed.