BirdLife Europe Media Room
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What is BirdLife International?
BirdLife International is the world’s largest Partnership of local Civil Society Organizations actively engaged in the conservation of birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. The Partnership, with its headquarters in Cambridge (United Kingdom), operates in over one hundred countries and territories worldwide and is supported by over 10 million people. BirdLife International is the leading authority on the status of birds and their habitats. BirdLife promotes sustainable living as a means of conserving birds and all other forms of biodiversity.
Stichting BirdLife Europe
The BirdLife European and Central Asian Partnership consists of 45 Civil Society Organisations in Europe and Cebtral Asia, of which all EU Members States. The Partnership is supported by the European Division wich is based in Brussels and is called Stichting BirdLife EUrope. Together with five other regional divisions and many Partners in other continents, theses entities form BordLife International.
With more than 4 100 staff in Europe, 2 million members and tens of thousands of skilled volunteers, BirdLife Europe, together with its 45 national Partners owns or manages more than 5 800 sites totalling 320 000 hectare.
BirdLife Europe Media Releases
Hereby you find the latest Media Releases from BirdLife Europe
2011
8 February 2012: A smarter EU Budget would contribute to employment and economic prosperity
19 December 2011: EU Environment Ministers fail to stand up for nature in face of farms lobby interests
12 December 2011: The EU continues to fail in financing successful and effective LIFE programmes
12 December 2011: Official report confirms massive misuse of EU Fisheries Funds - Billions of euros to promote sustainable fishing are doing the reverse
2 December 2011: New Eu fisheries fund: a shift towards sustainability?
22 November 2011: Solar, wind and ocean energy "greenest" for Europe - but governments must do more for wildlife and climate
10 November 2011: Grid operators and Environmental organisations team up to promote sustainable modernisation of electricity grids
12 October 2011: CAP disappoints on green hopes
6 October 2011: Environment Commissioners win a round for biodiversity on Cohesion policy, but harder CAP fight is still in balance
4 October 2011: BirdLife Europe continues to strengthen ties between business and biodiversity
4 October 2011: BirdLife International and HeidelbergCement launch biodiversity partnership in Europe
19 September 2011: EU scientists confirms bio-energy accounting error
19 September 2011: European Courts of Auditors puts high quality agri environment in the spotlight, as Commission mulls backtracking on drive for a greener CAP
16 September 2011: BirdLife International and HeidelbergCement become co-operation partners - jointly preserving biological diversity
2 September 2011: CAP to keep pumping cash into EU's most environmentally harmful farms, reveal leaked proposal
25 August 2011: Farmland birds in Europe fall to lowest levels
22 June 2011: EU Budget reform "smarter ways to spend a trillion..."
21 June 2011: Member States endorse new EU Biodiversity strategy calling for CAP and CFP reform
8 June 2011: Longline fisheries continue to drive albatross declines
7 June 2011: Big birds lose out in a crowded world
22 May 2011: Aren't Birds Brilliant? BirdLife Europe celebrates Day of Biodiversity
3 May 2011: The EU biofuel sustainability criteria tested - can we keep out bad biofuel ?
28 April 2011: Malta spring hunting out of control !
13 April 2011: BirdLife Partnership appeal to save the Sumava forest in Czech Republic
13 April 2011: Environmental NGOs call for the EU Budget to shift from perverse subsidies to investments in ecosystems and green economy
1 January 2011: BirdLife EUrope priorities fior the Hungarian Presidency
2010
18 November 2010: Green shoots for CAP reform? - Commission signals green CAP reform is on the table
18 November 2010: Solutions to end harmful subsidies in EU Budget revealed in new report
08 November 2010: Europe’s biofuels plans driving social and environmental destruction
28 October 2010: BirdLife welcomes Commission’s Letter of Formal Notice against Malta for spring hunting
25 October 2010: Key to Nagoya Biodiversity Summit Success Lies with the European Union
07 October 2010: Commission leaked document sketches a greener CAP, but much greater ambition needed if the CAP is to survive the gathering budget storm
30 September 2010: BirdLife calls upon the EU to champion biodiversity in Nagoya and at home
24 September 2010: Success and failures to act
22 September 2010: UN General Assembly: Time for European leadership on biodiversity
08 September 2010: Last stop before Nagoya
07 September 2010: Last chance to save the EU’s most environmentally sustainable farmers
07 July 2010: EU Common Agricultural Policy still not supporting sustainable farming
05 July 2010: Will Europe avoid another “Copenhagen fiasco”?
30 June 2010: Biodiversity still a walk-on actorn on EU's development aid scene
29 June 2010: Studies cast further doubt on sustainability of bioenergy
25 June 2010: Spanish Presidency scores 3 out of 10
22 May 2010: Biodiversity: do we have the courage to save it?
22 April 2010: Happy Birthday Earth!
22 March 2010: Time for a clean water
15 March 2010: Will Environment Ministers put biodiversity back on its way to recovery?
12 February 2010: Discover Natura 2000’s hidden gems with the EU Commissioners
02 February 2010: BirdLife International celebrates the World Wetlands Day: an answer to climate change
27 January 2010: European Landowners’ Organization and BirdLife International sketch a roadmap for the future of the CAP
26 January 2010: Biodiversity on the Brink - A photo exhibition to launch BirdLife’s Year of Biodiversity
18 January 2010: International action to stop illegal hunting in Malta
Contact:
Herlinde Herpoel
Head of European Communication and Marketing
BirdLife Europe
Avenue de la Toison d'Or 67, 1060 Brussels (Belgium)
E-mail: herlinde.herpoel@birdlife.org
Tel: 0032 2 541 07 82
Mobile: 0032 2 (0) 494 54 28 44