Press Releases
Saving the world's most threatened birds...
10-06-2008: What’s the best way to save a species? For 99% of Globally Threatened Birds, safeguarding Important Bird Areas (IBAs) is a key part of the solution... More »
UN Conference fails life on Earth
30-05-2008: The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity fails to address the urgency of biodiversity loss by 2010. Although 191 countries agreed in Bonn that the diversity of life on Earth is essential for human survival, and despite scientific proof that species are rapidly declining, they were unable to agree on many of the concrete steps forward that would have been necessary.... More »
The Red List 2008: Climate change and continental drift
19-05-2008: Climate change has become firmly established as an accelerant to many of the factors which have put one in eight of the world's birds at risk of extinction, the 2008 IUCN Red List assessment for birds has found. More »
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…. More »
New report shows EU biofuel policy likely to cause worldwide environmental destruction
06-05-2008: The EU’s biofuel policy is likely to cause large-scale environmental harm across the world, according to a new report published today by BirdLife International. The report presents real life cases, where the production of biofuel feed stocks is leading to the clearing of natural habitats. More »
Bermuda Petrel returns to Nonsuch Island (Bermuda) after 400 years
21-03-2008: Three Endangered Bermuda Petrel, translocated to Nonsuch Island before fledging in 2005, have returned to the island, and been observed entering artificial nesting burrows constructed for them... More »
Beck’s Petrel flies back from extinction
06-03-2008: A bird that was known only from two records from the 1920s has been discovered in the Pacific after a gap of 79 years... More »