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In 1969, the Stonewall riots occurred in New York City, often considered the moment the modern LGBTQ+ movement was born. Three years later—one week after BirdLife (then ICBP) celebrated its 50-year anniversary—2,000 people gathered in London for what would become the city’s first Pride march.
Former BirdLife International CEO Patricia Zurita joined CNN's Bill Weir to host an episode of CNN International's ground-breaking series Call to Earth, called Protecting Nature's Highways, about the wonders of migration and the global flyways migrating birds use.
The legislative proposal for binding nature restoration targets presented by the European Commission today can put the EU’s degraded ecosystems on a path to recovery.
On the ground with the BirdLife Partnership's policy team, Amy McDougall (BirdLife’s Global Biodiversity Policy Coordinator) explains how we’re influencing the CBD meeting in Kenya and why it is so important. It’s time to build consensus and thrash out a framework to save nature.
Compliance with EU environmental law is crucial to achieve politically agreed environmental and climate policy targets and should be a non-negotiable baseline.
A new assessment released by Birdlife Europe and the European Environmental Bureau finds that EU Member States are failing to use CAP funds to address environmental degradation from intensive agriculture practices. This comes in time when Member States are putting final touch on their CAP strategic plans before their submission for the approval by the European Commission.
Last Sunday we entered the second year of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
Sherilyn Bos, Capacity Development Officer at BirdLife International works with the Conservation Leadership Programme to support early career conservationists to overcome threats to nature in places where capacity and access to resources is limited. Here, she tells us about the Programme, her career journey and shares her tips for breaking into the sector.
Nature has persistently been sounding the alarm for the state of our planet for years – but that alarm has never been as loud as it is now. Floods, droughts, fires, soaring temperatures, and melting ice caps are impacting both people and nature in a way they have never before. Concern has peaked among a steadily increasing amount of people, who join scientists in their pleads to governments to - quite literally - stop the madness. To protect our planet, and to de facto, save humanity. To restore nature.
Our seas are pressed for space. There is an increasing demand for it by a growing number of activities that are steadily increasing their intensity. Activities such as fishing, extraction of raw materials, shipping, tourism, aquaculture, but also installations to produce energy from renewable sources are all competing for space at sea. All these activities and more, must be managed in a coordinated and coherent way. Maritime Spatial Planning aims to do this following an ecosystem-based approach that ensures the achievement of Good Environmental Status of our seas. But are EU Member States’ maritime spatial plans sufficient to deliver on this?
Another month, another seabird...
Mike Parr’s conservation career began in development at BirdLife in 1989. Fast forward 30 years and he is now President of the American Bird Conservancy (BirdLife Partner), where he has held several roles over the years. Here, he shares his career journey, what he feels has made the American Bird Conservancy so successful, and his advice for aspiring conservationists.