Working together for birds and people
15-05-2008: Her Highness Sheika Jawaher bint Hamad al-Thani, consort to the Heir Apparent of Qatar, has donated $1 million to establish a BirdLife fund to conserve birds and biodiversity, and to promote sustainable use of natural resources through site protection and management across the Middle East...
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Mind the gaps – strengthening protection of South-East Asian biodiversity
15-05-2008: The tropical forests and wetlands in South-East Asia are under great pressure. Any gaps in Protected Area networks may result in failure to conserve threatened species and ecosystems. The process to identify and fill these gaps is fully explained in a new BirdLife co-authored report…
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Hundreds of nature sites at risk from EU transport projects
13-05-2008: Over a thousand protected nature areas in Europe are under serious threat from high-profile EU-funded transport infrastructure projects according to a new report by BirdLife International, RSPB and other environmental groups, which was presented in the European Parliament today.
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Tata withdraws Natron project ESIA Report
12-05-2008: Tata Chemicals Ltd has finally withdrawn the much discredited Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Report for the proposed Lake Natron soda ash plant. The development poses serious threats to the survival of Lesser Flamingos and the livelihoods of local communities...
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Tricoloured mega-colony saved
08-05-2008: Audubon California has announced that it has reached an agreement to safeguard a single colony of 80,000 Tricoloured Blackbirds...
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Vulture crisis deepens
30-04-2008: Asian vultures will be extinct in the wild within a decade without urgent action to eliminate the livestock drug that has caused their catastrophic decline
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Think Pink - save Africa's flamingos
BirdLife's position statement on the proposed Lake Natron soda ash development.
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BirdLife News Round-up: April 2008
The BirdLife Partnership has conservation programmes working in every corner of the world...
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Price of power
A ubiquitous part of modern life, electricity and the infrastructure that provide it have devastating effects on several bird species.
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