Europe and Central Asia

Poland – Polish Society for the Protection of Birds (OTOP)

BirdLife Partner

Founded in 1991
Members: 804
Staff: 37
ul. Odrowaza 24, Marki, PL, 05-270
Tel. +48 22 761 82 05; Fax +48 22 761 90 51
office@otop.org.pl
www.otop.org.pl
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Mission of the organisation

  • to protect birds and their habitats
  • to establish and manage new bird reserves
  • to lobby local authorities for the promotion and protection of Important Bird Areas
  • to promote knowledge of birds and their life
  • to prevent human activities which harm nature
  • to support nature-friendly land-use
  • to support research for bird protection
  • to support the birdwatching movement

Key Activities

  • Conservation
  • Education

 

News
The Skadar Pedunculate Oak has long stalks on its acorns © Montenegrin Ecologists Society
27 Nov 2020

How Balkan botanists saved a threatened oak and are planting thousands more

From saving a monumental old tree to collecting over 20,000 acorns, determined young botanists from Montenegro have high ambitions when it comes to a highly threatened oak subspecies
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Europe and Central AsiaMontenegro
1 Dec 2020

Press Release - Over 130 scientists to the EU: Stop funding overfishing

Brussels – 1 December
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Europe and Central Asia
7 Jul 2021

Countdown 2030: four lessons from the first month of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

We are one month on from the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, with ano
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Europe and Central Asia
18 Jun 2021

Common Fisheries Policy: Mission not yet accomplished

Seven years after the last reform of the Common Fisheries
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Europe and Central Asia
26 Nov 2020

New European Court of Auditors report on marine environment: “EU protection is wide but not deep”

Today, the European Court of Auditors released a
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Europe and Central Asia
Eurasian Skylark by Bob Brewer
16 Sep 2021

French President Macron wants to allow trapping of 110,000+ wild birds

Terrible news for wild birds in France: President Emmanuel Macron has just re-authorised horrific bird trapping practices which only have their place in history books. BirdLife’s French Partner, LPO, reports.
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Europe and Central Asia
The main harbour of Berlenga Grande Island, Portugal
19 May 2021

Bringing nature back to the Berlengas archipelago

One morning in 2014, Joana Andrade received a phone call that would determine the next five years of her life. She was going to coordinate the restoration of the Berlengas islands’ natural habitat! This is her story.
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Europe and Central Asia
30 Nov 2020

Open letter: make the CAP trilogues transparent

The CAP, the Common Agricultural Policy, costs us €387 billion in public money, and has a tremendous impact on Europe’s farmers, biodiversity and climate.

You would think EU negotiations on the future of such an...
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Europe and Central Asia
Team members from EnvPro and E-grupa © Mihailo Jovićević
19 Feb 2021

The new wave of plant conservationists in the Balkans

Move over bearded botanists: a new generation of young expert plant scientists are scaling remote Balkan mountains to save extremely rare plants found nowhere else – some with ranges smaller than a football field
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Europe and Central AsiaAlbaniaBosnia and HerzegovinaMontenegroNorth macedonia
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