Founded in: 1957
Members: 9000
Staff: 4
Address: Sandgata 30 B, N-7012 Trondheim, Norway
Email: nof@birdlife.no
Web: http://www.birdlife.no/

Mission of the organisation

To protect nature, and especially fauna relating to birds, and to constitute a link between people interested in birds in Norway.

Key Activities

Protection of bird habitats
Running conservation-related projects on several threatened and near-threatened birds species both within Norway and abroad
Public information on the significance of protecting birds
Publishing membership magazines

Recent Achievements

Through lobbying brought about a change in legislation to stop the spring hunting of ducks in Finnmark
Intervened in plans to build a bridge on an IBA and Ramsar site
Succeeded in getting a ban imposed to stop people visiting and disturbing migrating Lesser White-fronted Geese at Valdak Marshes IBA
Published a 40-page booklet on Wild Birds and Legislation in Norway that was distributed to all police offices and environmental management authorities in the country
Lobbied successfully to alter plans for construction of a road that would have cut across an important estuary for waterbirds
Carried out a major awareness campaign aimed at changing peoples' attitudes towards corvids; an information booklet about the ecological role of corvids was also published
Increased number of members by >60% in 2004-2005 due to new magazine focusing bird-feeding and nest-boxes
Hunting ban on the small and decreasing Norwegian population of Bean Geese
Mapping of migration routes and wintering sites of Lesser White-fronted Geese on the eastern migration route (through Russia, Kazakhstan and to Iraq)

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