Finland has completed a comprehensive update of its Important Bird Areas (IBA) network, reflecting relevant changes in bird ...

Today, the EU REACH Committee met to discuss a revised version of the lead restriction proposal, put forward by the European Commission. This new text significantly weakens the draft restriction on ...

Join Hólmfríður to find out what is being done to protect precious wetlands in Iceland and the birds that depend on them.

In this new series, we’ll meet conservationists to learn more about their vital work right along the world's migratory flyways. Migratory birds connect landscapes, countries and even continents ...

The Snowy Owl has been declared Regionally Extinct in Sweden. For the first time in 20 years, the country has officially lost a bird species. It’s hard to mistake a Snowy Owl for another bird. Big, ...

Across the forests of West and Central Africa, hornbills play a vital role in keeping ecosystems alive. They feast on fruit and then disperse the seeds, sometimes many kilometres from where they fed, ...

Australia has become the ninth country to launch our Avian Sensitivity Tool for Energy Planning (AVISTEP) at the Australasian Ornithological Conference in Boorloo/Perth. Today, AVISTEP has been ...

BirdLife International’s 2025 Red List update reveals a record number of species in decline, but shows how habitat restoration can help even the most threatened species to recover. At BirdLife, ...

This species has a wide distribution, with the Eastern subspecies being a resident bird in the southern parts of India, Southeast Asia, and Australia. In Japan, it is a summer visitor from Honshu to ...

This International Vulture Awareness Day, we celebrate these vital birds, our ongoing efforts to conserve them and identify the work that still needs to be done for the world’s most efficient ...

As Southern Europe faces increasingly destructive wildfires [1], a new paper by WWF and BirdLife Europe calls on European governments to shift from reactive firefighting to a proactive and integrated ...