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This week, David Rothenberg and Olivia Chaney will perform at the BirdLife100 World Congress, sharing the beauty of birdsong with members of the BirdLife Partnership. By listening to the Birdsong Project, you can celebrate and enjoy the beauty of birdsong from wherever you are in the world.
Today, the European Parliament voted on the revision of the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED III). Sadly, the Parliament missed the chance to end support for burning forest biomass and to instead redirect misguided subsidies to real renewable energy sources.
BEUC, BirdLife, ECOS, T&E and WWF leave the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance. NGOs claim the European Commission has interfered politically in the group, and acted against evidence despite its legal obligation to follow science-based advice.
September is here and it is time to catch up with the EU’s latest nature news.
A Legacy of Love for Nature
In October, the European Parliament will vote on a report calling for an "EU cormorant management plan". In plain text this means, controlling their population through lethal measures. Here are 5 reasons why this plan is not a good solution.
BirdLife International launches four new projects supported by the UK government’s Darwin Initiative.
In a game-changer for conservation, Cornell Lab of Ornithology and BirdLife International join forces to integrate BirdLife Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) and Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) into eBird.
We’ve written before about how we should basically stop burning stuff, right? It seems that common sense is only for the birds. It looks like the European Union is on course for another decade of burning biodiversity and carbon stocks, all in the name of renewables. Great! With our planet being on the verge of collapse this is what we were all waiting for.
Through the voices of our local Partners, our series “of clearcuts and birds” tells some of the stories of Finnish, Estonian and Latvian forests and of their incredible biodiversity, as well as the hard consequences of their exploitations, (in)directly driven by the EU’s support for bioenergy.