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EU Organisations

BirdLife Europe

Introduction

BirdLife International is a global Partnership of conservation organizations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. BirdLife Europe supports the European and Central Asian Partnership for BirdLife International. BirdLife's aims are to:

  • prevent the extinction of any bird species;
  • maintain and where possible improve the conservation status of all bird species;
  • conserve and where appropriate improve and enlarge sites and habitats important for birds;
  • help, through birds, to conserve biodiversity and to improve the quality of people's lives;
  • integrate bird conservation into sustaining people's livelihoods.

Structure, key stakeholders and partners

BirdLife Partners operate in 116 countries and territories worldwide. In Europe, BirdLife is present in 45 countries and all EU Member States. BirdLife International is a global Partnership of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with a special focus on conservation and birds. Every four years the Partnership adopts strategies, programmes and policies and elects a global Council and regional committees.

BirdLife Europe provides a wide range of experience and skills within the fields of ornithology, conservation, advocacy and communication. BirdLife Europe also coordinates the work in Central Asia.

Priorities and activities

The BirdLife Partnership is working across the globe in a united effort to address the biggest conservation challenges which require international action such as climate change and preventing extinctions defined as global programmes of the organisation. In addition, BirdLife Partners collaborate on regional work programmes in every continent.

BirdLife is acting through several ways to conserve birds around the world: high-profile campaigns to save species and conserve habitats, BirdLife's conservation science programme benefiting from the practical feedback of field projects and consultation with a worldwide network of experts, several works with a growing network of people to advocate policy change, development of relationships with business in order to find constructive solutions and support best environmental practice, training to develop local competence in technical skills, biodiversity monitoring, agricultural practices, resource management, conservation or forestry, etc. In Europe, many of BirdLife’s partners are working on agriculture and the Common Agricultural Policy. Many of them are also actively engaged in the National Rural Development Networks.

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