Europe and Central Asia

Switzerland - SVS/BirdLife Switzerland

BirdLife Partner

Founded in 1922
Members: 62000
Staff: 12
Wiedingstrasse, Zurich, CH, 8036
Tel. +41 44 457 70 20; Fax +41 44 457 70 30
svs@birdlife.ch
www.birdlife.ch
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Mission of the organisation

The mission of the SVS/BirdLife Switzerland is the protection of birds and biodiversity from a local to the international level and by this making a contribution for a natural environment and for people.

Key Activities

  • Habitat conservation
  • Site protection
  • Species Action plans
  • International projects
News
8 Apr 2019

Anti-poaching camps give honey-buzzard sweet taste of success

The European Honey-buzzard is fearless in the face of stinging wasps and hornets - but it has no defence against illegal shooting for sport. In Italy, “anti-poaching camps” sparked an extremely successful movement which...
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Europe and Central AsiaItaly
Eurasian Blackcaps are illegally lured towards traps using recordings of their song © BirdLife Europe
19 Mar 2019

Netted, glued and eaten whole – can we keep this songbird free?

The Eurasian Blackcap’s beautiful song has inspired humanity for centuries. But in Cyprus today, it is silenced by industrial-level illegal trapping using invisible nets or glue sticks: all to fuel an unlawful trade in...
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Europe and Central AsiaCyprus
9 Nov 2018

Intensive farming is shepherding the collapse of the living world

Ariel Brunner, Senior Head of Policy at BirdLife Europe, explains why the fierce debate on cuts to the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) budget is just a smokescreen for a broken farming system shepherding the...
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Europe and Central Asia
7 Oct 2019

On World Habitat Day, let’s give space back to nature

Today is World Habitat Day.
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Europe and Central Asia
The Egyptian Vulture was once nicknamed the "Pharaoh's Chicken" © BirdLife Europe
28 Feb 2019

World’s only tool-using vulture risks being lost forever

Hailed for its intelligence and majesty, the Egyptian Vulture was admired and worshipped throughout history. But decimated by poisoning, electrocution and illegal trophy hunting, the bird that was once an Ancient...
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Europe and Central AsiaBulgariaEgypt
20 Feb 2019

The Quarry Life Award

In December, BirdLife’s CEO, Patricia Zurita, attended HeidebergCement’s fourth Quarry Life Award ceremony – a contest to inspire school children, graduate students and researchers to find new and innovative ways to...
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Europe and Central Asia
22 Oct 2018

Rewilding – helping nature find its own way

Following the publication of a benchmark new study in one of biology’s most prestigious journals, we take a closer look at the science of ‘rewilding’ – the ecological restoration movement putting hope at the heart of...
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Europe and Central AsiaNetherlands
23 Apr 2019

Spring Alive has extra bounce for 2019

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Europe and Central Asia
5 Dec 2018

Water - You don't know what you've got till it's gone

Many European governments want to weaken the EU’s water protection law. YOU can tell the European Commission to #ProtectWater by signing your name in the form below.
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Europe and Central Asia
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