Press Releases
Birds show that world is falling short of biodiversity target
09-10-2008: In 2002 the world’s governments took the unprecedented step of committing themselves to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. More »
Business answers conservation call
24-09-2008: Rio Tinto Alcan, a division of Rio Tinto, one of the world’s leading mining and exploration companies, has become the latest corporation to join the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme. More »
Birds indicate biodiversity crisis – and the way forward
22-09-2008: Common birds are in decline across the world, providing evidence of a rapid deterioration in the global environment that is affecting all life on earth – including human life. All the world’s governments have committed themselves to slowing or halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010. But reluctance to commit what are often trivial sums in terms of national budgets means that this target is almost certain to be missed... More »
Sir David Attenborough champions BirdLife International's work to halt extinctions
18-08-2008: Sir David Attenborough, the greatest wildlife communicator of our age, has added his weight to the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme by becoming a Species Champion. More »
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 »