News
Welcome to the BirdLife News Section. Here you will find news stories, features, press releases, and information about forthcoming events.
Nature is amazing - January 2010 News
08-02-2010: Watching a butterfly weaving its way along a summer meadow is one of life’s greatest pleasures. But how many of us realise that these fragile creatures can undertake annual migrations of several thousand kilometres? A new study has shed light on how they manage it - with an inbuilt compass that enables them to select winds which will take them in their chosen direction at speeds of up to 100 km per hour. Nature is truly amazing and something to celebrate... More »
New website for Canadian Important Bird Areas programme
04-02-2010: BirdLife International's Canadian co-partners Bird Studies Canada and Nature Canada have launched a new website for the Canadian Important Bird Areas (IBA) Programme More »
BirdLife cares for wetlands
02-02-2010: Today is World Wetlands Day and this year's theme - Caring for wetlands: an answer to climate change - highlights the bonds between wetlands, biodiversity and climate change. More »
Spring is coming!
01-02-2010: BirdLife International has once again launched its annual Spring Alive campaign to celebrate the miracle of bird migration. More »
Twelve years of site support in Burkina Faso
29-01-2010: In 1997, Georges Oueda of Naturama (BirdLife in Burkina Faso) came to the northern wetland of Oursi to find volunteers to perform water bird counts, he asked the mayor of Oursi town to identify young people keen to be trained as ornithologists... More »
News in Brief
27-01-2010: Stories in this News in Brief: Common Crane is Armenia's Bird of the Year; Audubon California expands habitat protection; Get your hands on the Indochinese Babbler; Enforcing the US Migratory Bird Treaty Act; International action to stop illegal hunting in Malta More »
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