BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL

Our vision is a world where nature and people live in greater harmony, more equitably and sustainably. The BirdLife Partnership strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards the sustainable use of natural resources.

As a charity, BirdLife depends on funding support from a range of sources, to carry out the vital work that we do.

BirdLife's priorities and programmes are based firmly on science, compiled using the expertise of our ornithologists and through the reach, research and hands-on fieldwork of the entire Partnership. Our wildlife protection focuses on birds because, as well as being important in their own right, they are excellent indicators for the health of the environment as a whole.
As the popularity of birdwatching demonstrates, birds are much-loved, appealing and – as a result – exceptionally well-known, providing an excellent scientific foundation for BirdLife's work. By saving the habitats and ecosystems important for birds, we effectively conserve a much broader array of biodiversity.

BirdLife is a unique Partnership of national, membership-based conservation organisations in over 100 countries and territories across the world. Partners plan and work together, sharing ideas, information, experience and support. BirdLife is governed through a panel of elected Partner representatives.
BirdLife takes practical action. We work with and for people – to improve their quality of life alongside, and as a result of, nature conservation. We collaborate with others wherever possible, at local, national, regional or global levels, linking with community groups, governments, businesses, universities and other non-governmental organisations to increase the impact of our efforts. Because of this structure, we are one of the most efficient organisations at converting limited resources into effective local action.

BirdLife is celebrating our hundred-year anniversary in 2022. Over the past century, we have been instrumental in forming new, collaborative model for global conservation. The work of the BirdLife Partnership has brought multiple birds back from the very brink of extinction, including the Azores Bullfinch and the Blue-throated Macaw. Our campaigning has saved the fates of scores of vital habitats including Christmas Island, where a mining proposal was overturned after tireless advocacy.

We have facilitated the formation of brand new BirdLife Partners who have since become powerful, independent names in their country. A recently study found that bird extinction rates have been reduced by 40% thanks to conservation action, and we are proud to have played a part in this success.

The following summaries are just a taste of our accomplishments:
https://www.birdlife.org/birdlife-secretariat-annual-review/
https://www.birdlife.org/news/2021/12/14/red-list-2021-worrying-declines-in-iconic-asian-bird-species/
https://www.birdlife.org/news/2021/12/30/a-look-back-at-some-of-the-biggest-successes-you-have-helped-us-to-achieve-in-2021/