Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Agriculture
Biodiversity
Business and Industry
Climate Change
Energy
Environment
Governance
Habitat
Indigenous Peoples
Industrial Development
Law of the Sea and Antarctica
Least Developed Countries
Private Sector
Statistics
Sustainable Development
Technical Cooperation
Volunteerism
Sustainable Development:
Agriculture
Biodiversity
Capacity-building
Climate change
Energy
Forests
Indicators
Industrial development
Information for decision-making and participation
Institutional arrangements
International cooperation for an enabling environment
Land management
Marine Resources
Mining
Mountains
Oceans and seas
Partnerships
Protecting and managing the natural resources
Rural Development
Science
Sustainable development for Africa
Sustainable development in a globalizing world
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| Geographic scope: |
International
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Ensure environmental sustainability
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year of registration: |
2004 |
| Organizational structure: |
A unique partnership: “local to global” with co-ordinated on-the-ground action. BirdLife International is a global partnership of conservation organisations (NGOs) that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. Together we are 115 BirdLife Partners worldwide – one local NGO per country or territory – and growing. We are driven by our belief that local people, working for nature in their own places but connected nationally and internationally through our global Partnership, are the key to sustaining all life on this planet. This unique local-to-global approach delivers high impact and long-term conservation for the benefit of nature and people. BirdLife is widely recognised as the world leader in bird conservation. Rigorous science informed by practical feedback from projects on the ground in important sites and habitats enables us to implement successful conservation programmes for birds and all nature. Our actions are providing both practical and sustainable solutions significantly benefiting nature and people. BirdLife Partners represent the concerns of the people in their territory. This enhances the credibility and legitimacy of each Partner when working with the private and public sectors. The local nature of the Partners ensures the delivery of high impact, cost effective and sustainable conservation actions on the ground. While Partners act locally, they are also united by a shared BirdLife vision, strategies, and programmes that they have jointly developed as part of the Partnership. Each BirdLife Partner is an independent environmental or wildlife not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation (NGO). Most Partners are best known outside of the Partnership by their organisation’s name. This allows each Partner to maintain its individual national identity within the global Partnership. BirdLife Partners work together in a collaborative, coordinated fashion across national boundaries to build a global Partnership of national conservation organisations. The BirdLife partnership has 6 Regional BirdLife Coordination Offices throughout the world and a Global Office in Cambridge, UK – together known as the BirdLife International Secretariat. The Secretariat co-ordinates and facilitates the BirdLife International strategies, programmes and policies. |
| Number and type of members: |
- As the world’s largest nature conservation partnership BirdLife International has more than 10 million members and supporters; - This comprises 2.72 million members, and 7.2 million people who supported BirdLife Partners in 2015 without being members; - BirdLife Partner Environmental NGOs worked with over 4,000 local groups, including action at more than 1,000 Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas, and our work involved 1.9 million young people (under 18); - The BirdLife Partnership employs nearly 8,000 staff supported by 5,000 volunteers. |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
The BirdLife Partnership is formed of 115 national conservation NGOs, one per country or territory |
| Funding structure: |
Membership fees or dues
Fees for providing consulting or research services
Grants from Governments
Funds from other Non-Governmental Organizations
Donations and grants from domestic sources
Fundraising campaigns
Other sources
Foreign and international grants
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