BirdLife International

Partnership for nature and people

BirdLife International is the only global Partnership conserving birds and all life on our planet.

We’re made up of over 120 worldwide conservation organisations and a Global Team. We work side by side, tackling some of the natural world’s most pressing issues. We carry out conservation rooted in regional knowledge, working alongside Indigenous Peoples and local communities to create sustainable change. Using birds as our compass, we protect migration paths across borders, strengthen conservation, and unite voices in every region of the world.

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“We are the only global Partnership protecting birds and all life on our planet, so collaboration is a crucial aspect of how we work at BirdLife International. We are proud to be a CCI partner as it allows us to work with an incredible network of organisations to scale up local and national conservation to global impact, while also influencing decision makers to protect nature around the world. I am confident that together, we can harness the power of partnership to give one united voice to nature.” – Martin Harper, CEO, BirdLife International

Related Projects

Delivering effective management for invasive alien species

Toward a CCI “West Africa Nature Transformation initiative”: strategic participatory development.

Developing practical guidance on assessing air quality regulation as a service from nature

Developing next-generation tools to predict the biodiversity impacts of feeding 10 billion people

Science-based targets for driving global wetland conservation applicable from local to global scales

Bridging a gap in marine conservation: delivering a toolkit to inform and advance site-based conservation solutions for migratory marine birds

A Quantitative Global Review of Trade in Wild Birds

Defining and Measuring “Destructive Fishing” in Support of Achieving SDG14 – Life Below Water

Quantifying Global-Level Synergies and Trade-Offs between Biodiversity Conservation and Nature Based Climate Solutions

Sustainable Finance for Conservation Landscapes in the post-COVID World

Plastic connectivity: disentangling the problem of plastic pollution for pelagic seabirds

Integrating science, policy and sustainable development to address African-Eurasian migrant landbird declines: African perspectives on a flyway-wide issue

The Green List of Species: towards a Standard for measuring species recovery

Developing tailored remote monitoring protocols for sites of biodiversity importance

Embracing failure in conservation

Improving Engagement of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Sustainability Standards

Identifying globally important sites for life on earth: scoping of Key Biodiversity Areas

Science and Policy to Address Threats to the Afro-Palearctic Migratory Birds: new research and future policy

Bringing biodiversity into the heart of natural capital approaches

A global audit of biodiversity monitoring

Learning from Citizen Science approaches to map threats to wildlife globally and inform conservation policies

CCI engagement in defining the post-2020 biodiversity agenda

Putting climate change adaptation into conservation practice

Biodiversity and natural capital

The Missing Conservation Knowledge Product: measuring and mitigating threats and pressures on biodiversity

Estimating the relative environmental footprints of palm oil and potential alternatives

Unusual Suspects: what contributions can biodiversity conservation organisations make to the Sustainable Development Goals?

The role of ‘other effective area-based conservation measures’ in achieving Aichi Target 11

Protected Area connectivity: an assessment for Aichi target 11

A Conservation Agenda for Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ)

Impacts of renewable energy on global biodiversity – an overlooked cost of climate change mitigation?

PRISM: Practical Impact Assessment Methods for Small and Medium-sized Conservation Projects

The Cambridge contribution to the development of Global Ecosystems Models for use in IPBES and other global biodiversity assessments

INTRINSIC: Integrating rights and social issues in conservation

Strengthening the mitigation hierarchy for greater conservation gains

Enhancing leadership in organisational development among conservation organisations globally

Attaining Aichi Target 11: How well are marine ecosystem services secured by protected areas?

How key should “Key Biodiversity Areas” be?

Eco-certification of tropical crops

CCI and China: where are we and what next?

Developing a framework to inform climate change adaptation for global biodiversity

Building a network of institutional NGO capacity to support sustainable conservation

Assessing conservation costs in support of the CBD Strategic Plan

Moving conservation into the mainstream: collaborative CCI action in support of IPBES

Effectiveness of ecosystem‐based approaches to adaptation: a critical review of current evidence

Mechanisms underpinning the impact of climate change on natural populations

Links in biodiversity conservation, ecosystems services and climate change: teaching materials and building capacity

Beyond win-win: interrogating ecosystem services dynamics

A framework for assessing livelihood impacts of forest conservation programmes

Integrating socio-economic data to improve the design and impact of REDD+ schemes

Numbers that drive policy for conservation: linked indicator sets for the post-2010 CBD framework

Do Protected Areas work? Assessing long-term land-cover change in priority sites for conservation in Africa using remote sensing.

Measuring and monitoring ecosystem services at the site scale: building practical tools for real-world conservation

Trends and gaps in protection of the world’s biodiversity

Demonstrating ecosystem service values in Africa

Bringing people together to discuss and debate new topics

Gathering new ideas for collaboration

Biodiversity and REDD+

Reconnecting people and nature

Understanding barriers and opportunities to develop biodiversity offsets – a multi-sector perspective

Exploring the linkages between poverty and biodiversity

Supporting IPBES

Assessing and valuing ecosystem services

Carbon management and the ‘greening’ of conservation organisations in Cambridge

The implications of the EU Renewable Energy Directive for biodiversity

Sustainability criteria for biomass

What do conservation practitioners want from remote sensing?

The impacts of climate change on global biodiversity