Europe and Central Asia

Slovakia - SOS/BirdLife

BirdLife Partner

Founded in 1926
Members: 400
Staff: 11
Zelinarska, Bratislava, SK, 821 08
Tel. :+421 905256184 ; Fax +421 2 5542 2186
vtaky@vtaky.sk
www.birdlife.sk
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Mission of the organisation

Research and conservation  of nature, mainly birds and their habitats.

Key Activities

  • Monitoring of birds and data gathering.
  • Protection of SPAs/IBA.
  • Practical activities for endangered bird species and the management of biotopes.
  • Development of membership.
  • Environmental education and public awareness-building for bird conservation: lectures, World Birdwatch, Spring Arrivals, Bird of the Year.
  • Environmental policy: agriculture, national campaigns on hot issues, comments on new legislation.

 

News
28 Oct 2019

Farmers deserve a just ecological transition, and the CAP should pay for it

To avert the climate and biodiversity crises, we must drastically reduce our carbon footprint. What does that mean for the people and regions whose economy has been made entirely dependent on intensive agriculture? They...
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Europe and Central Asia
12 Feb 2020

Press Release - EU cooks the books on climate spending

New study finds that the EU’s flagship policy for climate spending, the Common Agriculture Policy, is based on dubious accounting.
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Europe and Central Asia
8 May 2020

BirdLife position paper: EU Fisheries Control Rules to protect the marine environment

Sensitive species such as seabirds, marine mammals, and sea turtles forage in highly pr
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Europe and Central Asia
10 Apr 2020

Will COVID-19 fuel the destruction of our oceans?

European fishers and aquaculture farmers who continue to work, like many others who p
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Europe and Central Asia
9 Mar 2020

Press release: +3600 scientists: The EU Common Agricultural Policy must stop destroying nature

Brussels
9 March 2020 5:01am CET
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Europe and Central Asia
The rare endemic Orjen Iris (Iris orjenii) ©Mihailo Jovićević
11 Nov 2019

Protecting rare plant species on Orjen Mountain

Located within the Mediterranean basin, Orjen Mountain is considered an internationally
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Europe and Central Asia
4 Mar 2020

Blue Manifesto - The roadmap to healthy ocean in 2030

More than 100 environmental organisations, led by BirdLife Europe, ClientEarth, Oceana,
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Europe and Central Asia
4 Mar 2020

Obituary: Arūnas Grigaitis 1961 – 2020

At BirdLife, we have been greatly saddened to learn of the passing of pioneering Lithuanian fisherman Arūnas Grigaitis while fishing at sea.
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Europe and Central Asia
19 Feb 2020

Climate and biodiversity: two birds of the same feather

To protect biodiversity also means to keep carbon within nature – and not eject it into the atmosphere where it changes the climate. We’re in a climate and biodiversity emergency: the EU must act accordingly.
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Europe and Central Asia
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