PREVENTING EXTINCTIONS PROGRAMME
Saving the world’s most threatened birds
Get involved as a Champion or a Supporter To find out more about how to become a BirdLife Species Champion or a Preventing Extinctions Programme supporter please contact us today: Send an email to: species.champions@birdlife.org Call us on: +44 1223 277318 Or write to us at: BirdLife Species Champions, BirdLife International, Wellbrook Court, Girton Road, Cambridge, CB3 0NA, United Kingdom You can keep up with our progress on our website at www.birdlife.org/extinction
BirdLife International is a partnership of people working to protect birds and the environment. As a worldwide community, we are the leading authority on the status of birds and their habitats. Over 10 million people support the BirdLife Partnership of national nongovernmental conservation organisations and local networks. Partners, operating in more than 110 territories, work together on shared priorities, programmes and policies, learning from each other to achieve real conservation results. The BirdLife Partnership promotes sustainable living as a means of conserving birds and all other forms of biodiversity. For more information, please contact: BirdLife International, Wellbrook Court, Girton Road, Cambridge CB3 0NA, UK Tel: +44 1223 277318 Fax: +44 1223 277200 Email: birdlife@birdlife.org www.birdlife.org BirdLife International is a UK registered charity, no. 1042125 Designed and printed by Redback Design www.redbackdesign.co.uk Printed on paper sourced from FSC-certified well managed forests, recycled material and/or controlled wood. Image credits: Cover: Sociable Lapwing (Ghulam Rasool Mughal; worldsrarestbirds.com), Orange-bellied Parrot (Chris Tzaros; worldsrarestbirds.com), Cebu Flowerpecker (Tomasz Cofta), Philippine Eagle (Nigel Voaden; worldsrarestbirds.com), Hoary-throated Spinetail (Mikael Bauer), Restinga Antwren (Mauricio Vecchi), Sociable Lapwing (Maxim Koshkin), Azores Bullfinch (Dominic Mitchell; www.birdingetc.com), Forest Owlet (Mark Beaman; worldsrarestbirds.com), Zino’s Petrel (SPEA), Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Chaiwat Chinuparawat; worldsrarestbirds.com), Spoon-billed Sandpiper being released (Rob Robinson; BTO), Sociable Lapwing flock (ACBK), Northern Bald Ibis (Jean Paul Tilly; worldsrarestbirds.com), Hooded Grebes (Diego Punta Fernandez), Fiji Petrel (Hadoram Shirihai), Chinese Crested Tern (Chen Lin; worldsrarestbirds.com), Liben Lark (Greg Davies).
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The Preventing Extinctions Programme The BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme was launched in September 2008 in an attempt to counteract an increasingly diverse array of threats to birds by delivering conservation actions – underpinned by science – where they are most needed. The programme is implemented globally by the BirdLife Partnership, with Partners taking on different roles: some more focused on implementing action; others more on fundraising. The development of two communities plays a central part in the programme: BirdLife Species Guardians – experts who take the lead in conserving threatened species in their country; and BirdLife Species Champions – organisations or individuals who raise awareness of and fund the vital conservation that is so urgently required. Since its inception, the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme has already achieved a huge amount of tangible conservation action. This report focuses on the amazing work of a few of our Species Guardians. However, the Preventing Extinctions Programme is far more wide ranging than these examples can show. It encompasses the entirety of the action being undertaken by the BirdLife Partnership for threatened species. The Programme’s work has already covered more than 75 Critically Endangered species, in addition
to many other Endangered and Vulnerable species. It is this work, often involving several different Partners that makes the Programme truly unique. However, it is not only birds that benefit. The conservation carried out by Species Guardians also has a positive effect on many other plants and animals. In a collaboration of rigorous science, practical conservation, innovative fundraising and wideranging communication, the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme aims to deliver something ground breaking. As a global conservation Partnership and the world’s leading authority on birds and their habitats, with Partners in more than 110 countries and territories, we are working across borders and without politics. Our structure, and 10 million supporters worldwide, put us in a position to make a real difference.
OUR PARTNERSHIP STRUCTURE, AND 10 MILLION SUPPORTERS WORLDWIDE, PUT US IN A POSITION
to make a real difference.
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The Programme’s Impact During its first four years, the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme has appointed BirdLife Species Guardians for a total of 68 species. A recent analysis of the work so far shows the positive impact the Programme is having:
Conservation prospects have been improved for 90% of species through increased public awareness and engagement with civil society (90%), local (73%) and national (45%) government, and business (38%). 88% of species have benefited from increased conservation capacity. For 40% of species, conservation action had a positive impact on the condition or extent of their habitat. The severity of threats has been reduced or stabilised for 75% of species, following interventions to tackle hunting/trapping, habitat loss and invasive species. For 48% of species, progress has been made in establishing or expanding protected areas. 58% of species have also benefited from conservation action that enhanced the effectiveness of site management.
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We now have better knowledge of the population size for 73% of targeted species, and threats for 65%. Ongoing monitoring has been started or supported for 75% of species. Species Action Plans have been developed, published or updated for 43% of species. Conservation action has continued since the Preventing Extinctions Programme funding for 98% of species, with 30% benefiting from additional funding leveraged by the Programme. Searches for ‘lost’ birds has been undertaken for 11 species, one of which detected the target species (Cuban Kite), while two produced reports from local people (Himalayan Quail) or unconfirmed sightings (Archer’s Lark). In addition, eight searches produced significant records of other species of conservation concern.
2012 changes to the Red List BirdLife International is the official Red List Authority for birds for the IUCN, supplying the categories and associated detailed documentation for all the world’s birds to the IUCN each year. The Red List underpins the work of the Preventing Extinctions Programme. It informs and guides as to the species most desperately in need of conservation and it is to those species that the Programme gives priority. In the latest assessment in 2012, 1,313 species were considered threatened with extinction (i.e. appeared in the categories of Critically Endangered, Endangered and Vulnerable). This represents 13% of the total of 10,064 bird species in the world. An additional 880 species are considered Near Threatened, giving a total of 2,193 species that are new, urgent priorities for conservation action. The 2012 revisions included a number of changes to the set of species classified as Critically Endangered. These species face the highest risk of extinction in the immediate future because they have an extremely small and fragmented or declining population or range, are declining extremely rapidly, or have a stable or increasing but tiny population.
Ten species were newly uplisted to the Critically Endangered category: Edward’s Pheasant Lophura edwards
Ua Pou Monarch Pomarea mira was previously assumed to be extinct, but recent suggestions that it may survive led to its reclassification as Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct.)
Baer’s Pochard Aythya baeri Hooded Grebe Podiceps gallardoi
Three species were downlisted from Critically Endangered to lower threat categories:
Norfolk Island Parakeet Cyanoramphus cookii
Night Parrot Pezoporus occidentalis
Blue-winged Racquet-tail Prioniturus verticalis
Restinga Antwren Formicivora littoralis
Rio Branco Antbird Cercomacra carbonaria
Faichuk White-eye Rukia ruki
Maranon Spinetail Synallaxis maranonica Hoary-throated Spinetail Synallaxis kollari Regent Honeyeater Xanthomyza phrygia Javan Green Magpie Cissa thalassina
THUS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF SPECIES CLASSIFIED AS CRITICALLY ENDANGERED INCREASED
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Programme Success RESTINGA ANTWREN Formicivora littoralis This project has been outstandingly successful. In April 2011, the Governor of Rio de Janeiro State signed documents to create the state park of Costa do Sol, protecting 10,000 hectares which encompass almost all of the Restinga Antwren’s distribution. This great news is the result of a project funded by the British Birdwatching Fair and Species Champion Urs Peter Stäuble, and implemented by SAVE Brasil (BirdLife Partner) and Species Guardian Pingo d’Água. The population is still estimated at fewer than 1,000 individuals, but the new protection and a better understanding of the species lead to it being downlisted in threat category from Critically Endangered to Endangered. This constitutes a major achievement. New research has yielded important new information regarding home range, foraging behaviour and population estimates. Introduced Marmosets which had spread into the area and were threatening the bird’s nesting success are being removed under a project lead by the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Representatives of local state and municipal bodies are now collaborating on marmoset management in the Restinga Antwren’s range.
An exhibition entitled ‘Restinga Antwren – a view beyond the dunes’ has been displayed in five of the seven municipalities where the species occurs and has been visited by about 1,400 people. It provided a vehicle for discussion about creation of protected areas and public perception of the conservation project. The education campaign has also included displays of banners conveying messages about the biodiversity of the restinga habitat in places where thousands of vehicles and pedestrians circulate daily. Local media have covered all awareness raising projects. The official Restinga Antwren Species Action Plan, supported by the Chico Mendes Institute for Conservation of Biodiversity is being published in Portuguese and English. Species Guardian - Pingo d’Água Species Champions - Birdfair and Urs Peter Stäuble
NEW PROTECTION AND A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE SPECIES LEAD TO IT BEING DOWNLISTED IN THREAT CATEGORY FROM CRITICALLY ENDANGERED TO ENDANGERED.
A major achievement.
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SOCIABLE LAPWING Vanellus gregarius The Sociable Lapwing Project has been running since 2004. Every year since, researchers have collected data on their numbers, habitat use, distribution and nesting success, and, more recently, action has also been taken to tackle illegal hunting and strengthen legal protection along its extensive flyways. With the help of Species Champion Swarovski Optik, an International Species Working Group
has been established. Swarovski’s support has also funded the fitting of satellite-tracking devices which help shed light on where and how these birds migrate, so scientists can take whatever immediate action is necessary to protect them. The Sociable Lapwing Project is a superb example of the way the BirdLife International Partnership coordinates its activities: tags fitted by researchers working for ACBK (BirdLife in Kazakhstan) transmit data to RSPB scientists (BirdLife in the UK) who then direct field teams such as those from Doga Dernegi (BirdLife in Turkey) straight to the location of migrating birds in the field. This is a truly international conservation effort! A dedicated public website - The Amazing Journey - www.birdlife.org/sociable-lapwing - follows the project and communicates results to a wide audience stimulating additional awareness and ‘citizen science’ support and participation. Species Guardians - ACBK and BNHS Species Champions - RSPB and Swarovski Optik
AZORES BULLFINCH Pyrrhula murina The island of São Miguel is home to Azores Bullfinch. It was abundant in the nineteenth century. However, as the native laurel forests disappeared so too did the bullfinch. By the late 1970s, fewer than 40 pairs remained. The first population census, in 1989, suggested a population of around 100 pairs. In response, a five-year EU-funded LIFE project was launched in 2003 coordinated by SPEA (BirdLife in Portugal). The project, adjudged one of the five best LIFE Nature projects in 2009, has achieved a series of key steps towards the recovery of Azores Bullfinch. In 2008 Birdwatch magazine became a Species Champion for Azores Bullfinch and along with the British Birdwatching Fair has provided vital additional funds to help support the continuing project. Since then, SPEA has successfully restored around 230 ha of laurel forest. Orchards have been created at lower altitudes to improve winter food availability and to increase the interest of farmers in this alternative livelihood activity. The project has also other important benefits: providing the equivalent of full time employment for 25 local people annually, whilst adding an estimated €335,000 to the regional GDP each year. In 2008, a comprehensive population census was carried out, additionally supported by the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund. The population was estimated to have grown to 775 individuals and its range was found to be greater than previously thought. In light of these extremely positive findings, the species was downlisted to Endangered on the IUCN Red List in 2010. Species Guardian - SPEA Species Champions - Birdfair and Birdwatch
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Programme Success FOREST OWLET Heteroglaux blewitti Forest Owlet is endemic to central India. It was rediscovered in 1997, having previously been known from only a few specimens collected in the 19th century. Surveys since 2000 have discovered only tiny, fragmented populations and the total number is estimated at around 400 individuals, although as sightings increase, it is possible that this number might be revised upwards. Nevertheless, the species is threatened by continued loss of its deciduous forest habitat, predation by raptors, competition for nesting sites and hunting by local people. Species Guardian, the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has continued to survey potential sites for the bird and to analyse the results to establish total range, current distribution, population status and threats. Four new locations have been found. The major threats identified in most of its known sites are illegal tree felling and conversion of forest into agricultural land, frequent forest fires and overgrazing by cattle. Advocacy programmes to encourage improved forest management practices are underway,
involving the forest authorities and local communities. The Forest Department is being lobbied to approve the Species Recovery Plan which has been developed. It is planned to train local indigenous groups to promote ecotourism; three sites have been identified for this action. Local people are also being employed to assist in the surveys. A great deal of advocacy, educational and awareness raising activity has been undertaken, ranging from presentations at international conferences, to lectures and articles for local government and a public campaign for the Forest Owlet to be declared as the State Bird of Maharashtra. Unfortunately, the government (State Wildlife Advisory Board) did not accept the recommendation, but the process still drew a great amount of public attention. Brochures for public awareness are being printed in local language for distribution in communities and articles have been published in local newspapers. Species Guardian - BNHS Species Champions - Viking
ZINO’S PETREL Pterodroma madeira From time to time disaster strikes Threatened Species and whenever it does we quickly review how the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme can best respond. In August 2010, forest fires that were ravaging parts of Madeira engulfed the Eastern Mountain Massif – the only place where Europe’s rarest seabird, the Endangered Zino’s Petrel, nests. The fire was devastating and 25 young and, three adults were found dead. Many burrows were also damaged or destroyed and the few surviving remaining chicks were left exposed to the elements and predation. PREVENTING EXTINCTIONS PROGRAMME I 2012
We immediately launched an appeal, which quickly raised funding enabling SPEA (BirdLife in Portugal) and colleagues from Parque Natura de Madeira to take action. Firstly soil retention blankets were deployed on the precarious cliff face, artificial burrows were installed and later native plants were sown to restore vegetation cover. The following year these measures were proven highly effective and recovery began. 45 nests were found occupied and 19 nestlings successfully hatched. This year recovery at the colony continued and breeding success improved again. Encouragingly several mature birds initially ringed as chicks in 2005 have returned to the colony providing further optimism for a full recovery. Species Guardian - SPEA
SPOON-BILLED SANDPIPER Eurynorhynchus pygmeus In 2011, on its remote breeding grounds in the Russian Far East, the first steps to establish a conservation breeding programme for this species were taken led by Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and BirdsRussia. At the other end of the birds’ flyway, in Myanmar and Bangladesh, conservation teams are stopping the killing of Spoon-billed Sandpipers by helping hunters to set up new sustainable businesses. Along the flyway, BirdLife Partners are linking up under the leadership of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force to effect change. For example, BirdLife’s China Programme, the Hong Kong Birdwatching Society and the Wild Bird Society of Shanghai have been working at Rudong, thanks to a grant from Disney’s Friends for Change. Conservation education at local schools and awareness raising events have been
a crucial part of this work, which aim to increase understanding rapidly amongst local communities of the importance of the coastal wetlands for migratory birds and people. This approach has worked well at other sites in China, not only for Spoon-billed Sandpiper but also for Chinese Crested Tern, the country’s rarest bird. Species Champions - WildSounds, Heritage Expeditions, Dutch Birding, VBN and Disney Friends for Change
CONSERVATION EDUCATION AT LOCAL SCHOOLS AND AWARENESS RAISING EVENTS HAVE BEEN A
crucial part of this work.
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Significant Achievements by Species Blue-billed Curassow
Galapagos Petrel
Puerto Rican Nightjar
Crax alberti
Pterodroma phaeopygia
Caprimulgus noctitherus
Protection at a key site has been strengthened, new land acquired, and habitat quality improved through restoring forest area.
Control of invasive plants and ants has started and plans for invasive rodent eradication developed. New nests have been discovered on the islands of Santa Cruz and Isabella.
A Species’ Action Plan has been published and a conservation network established. New populations have been discovered. The species threat category has been downlisted from Critically Endangered to Endangered.
Araripe Manakin
Belding’s Yellowthroat
Raso Lark
Antilophia bokermanni
Geothlypis beldingi
Alauda razae
The establishment of a Protected Area has progressed. Four local forums have been established to improve land use planning.
86 local ecotourism guides have been trained. Species’ and site action plans have been developed. The Species’ threat category has been downlisted from Critically Endangered to Endangered.
Comprehensive monitoring has documented the largest population size ever recorded. The island of Santa Lucia has been identified as suitable for a translocation programme.
Uluguru Bush-shrike
Bengal Florican
White-shouldered Ibis
Malaconotus alius
Houbaropsis bengalensis
Pseudibis davisoni
Over 20,000 native trees have been planted to improve habitat condition. Forest patrols have been initiated to control illegal activities.
The establishment of protected Integrated Farming and Biodiversity Areas has been supported. A community consultation mechanism has been established.
Establishment of a protected area has progressed. The first ever national survey found the largest ever flocks (172 birds). Forest patrols have been strengthened.
Chinese Crested Tern
Mindoro Bleeding-heart
Cebu Flowerpecker
Sterna bernsteini
Gallicolumba platenae
Dicaeum quadricolor
Breeding colonies have been protected by wardens to prevent egg collection. There is now high level national awareness about the need to conserve this species.
Hunting levels have been reduced. Forest patrols have been initiated, reforestation established and ecotourism training initiated.
Forest patrols have been supported and expanded at two sites to prevent illegal forest clearance.
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Balearic Shearwater
Polynesian Ground-dove
Tuamotu Kingfisher
Puffinus mauretanicus
Gallicolumba erythroptera
Todiramphus gambieri
Coordinated land and sea monitoring has been established. Marine Important Bird Areas have been identified for the species and are being promoted with national governments and the European Commision as Marine Special Protection Areas.
Introduced rats have been successfully eradicated from two islets and eradication is underway on a third.
A Species Action Plan committee and Site Support Group have been set up to support better targeted conservation.
Tahiti Monarch
Fatuhiva Monarch
Pomarea nigra
Pomarea whitneyi
Control of rodents has improved while control of cats and native competitors has commenced. A Site Support Group has been established.
A programme of control of invasive cats and rats has been expanded, with monitoring data revealing its impact on the monarch’s breeding productivity.
Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita The migration route of the eastern population is being satellite tracked. Key sites are being monitored and threats assessed. The important Moroccan population remains stable.
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Our urgent call to action While much has been achieved during the last five years to save a suite of Critically Endangered birds from extinction, there are still many more species requiring action through the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme. The following three projects are typical examples that now urgently require funding through the support of a BirdLife Species Champion. If you, your company or organisation is able to help, please contact: species.champions@birdlife.org
Hooded Grebe Podiceps gallardoi The last bird species we declared extinct was the Alaotra Grebe (from Madagascar) in May 2010. Several other grebes now also face oblivion unless urgent action can be taken to save them. Hooded Grebe is found almost exclusively in Patagonia. Its population has crashed by 80% since its discovery in 1974 and recent surveys now indicate a worrying, escalating decline. Threats include habitat change caused by alien Rainbow Trout introduced to several of the lakes where it used to flourish and an increase in predatory Kelp Gulls that have started to move inland from coastal areas as they follow human developments in the region. Another sinister threat, just recently discovered, is the notorious American Mink. In 2011, mink killed more than 30 breeding adult Hooded Grebes on their nests, during just one night at a single colony, leaving 40 eggs abandoned.
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Action to save the Hooded Grebe is now underway through the coordinated efforts of several local NGOs led by BirdLife Species Guardian Aves Argentinas (BirdLife in Argentina). An innovative action plan has been developed that involves research and monitoring, guarding breeding colonies and advocacy at every level. If you would like to help save Hooded Grebe please contact us urgently.
Fiji Petrel Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi Albatrosses and Petrels are among the most threatened groups of seabirds in the world. Fiji Petrel is assumed to breed on the island of Gau but its nesting grounds have yet to be located. Until a bird was captured in 1984, it was only known from only a single specimen collected in 1855. It is believed that fewer than 50 pairs now survive, breeding in just 75 km2 of rugged forest. Known potential threats discovered by Species Guardian and BirdLife Partner Nature Fiji, include predation by introduced cats, rats, and feral pigs. Until nest sites are located, action to identify and respond cannot begin, so this is the single most urgent and important conservation action required to save the species from extinction.
An innovative nest search programme, using specially trained tracker dogs from New Zealand, is underway but is in desperate need of funding to continue. The dogs have been very successful at finding the more abundant Collared Petrel’s Pterodroma brevipes burrows and it is now only time and resources that prevent discovery of the Fiji Petrel’s breeding colony. Once located, work can begin to establish a safe nesting colony with artificial pest proof measures into which some birds can be translocated. If you would like to help save Fiji Petrel please contact us urgently.
Chinese Crested Tern Sterna bernsteini This bird has a tiny population of fewer than 50 individuals. The only known breeding colonies are on the Jiushan Islands and the Mazu Islands in China. The greatest immediate threat is illegal collection of eggs from tern colonies, many of which are sold at local markets or as roadside snacks. Its habitat is also being reduced through large-scale reclamation of coastal wetlands within both its breeding and non-breeding ranges. BirdLife in Asia is now working with the Wild Bird Society of Zhejiang and Fujian Bird Watching Society to raise awareness of the conservation needs among local people and relevant ministries in China. The results are encouraging: Xiangshan County has already strengthened protection of
the seabird colonies and a boat has been on guard 24 hours a day during the breeding season. Local government has also introduced serious penalties for egg collecting. While BirdLife continues local advocacy, we also need to support further conservation groups in Dancheng and Xiangshan to monitor the known breeding sites and further reduce pressure from egg collecting there. If you would like to help save Chinese Crested Tern please contact us urgently.
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BirdLife Species Champions & Programme Supporters BirdLife International is extremely grateful to all the Species Champions, Project Supporters and Trusts and Foundations who have joined us to help promote and fund the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme and its various species recovery projects during the last five years. We thank the British Birdwatching Fair - our Founding Global Programme Sponsor - for their great vision, support and commitment. Profits from the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Birdfairs enabled the initial establishment and subsequent advancement of the Programme. We thank all our BirdLife Species Champions – an extraordinary, growing, international community of companies, organisations and individuals who have committed to support The BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme for a minimum of three years. The energy, dedication and commitment offered by each Species Champion is truly remarkable. We applaud the considerable lengths each goes to, in a multitude of different ways, ‘championing’ threatened species conservation and finding ever more innovative ways of promoting the urgent conservation action required to their own communities and beyond. At a higher level, Species Champions choose to support a particular Critically Endangered Species by providing significant funding to help its recovery. They are linked to that species and we recognise them for making a specific contribution to its conservation and their additional support to the overall programme. Our other Species Champions support the whole suite of species projects that we are now establishing or are already engaged in and advancing. Their funding is pooled, primarily to provide resources used for the conservation of all globally threatened species prioritised by the BirdLife International Partnership with active conservation effort in train. We thank our many extremely generous Programme Supporters whose individual donations also make a significant and growing contribution to our work. A small proportion of every donation made to the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme helps to provide the vital resources that enable us to establish conservation for those threatened species that lack an individual Species Champion and in particular for those for which no other organisations are acting today. In addition, these monies help to fund the vital science, policy, advocacy and communications that underpin the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme and that help to drive our conservation action forward. If you would like to find out more about becoming a BirdLife Species Champion, Programme Sponsor, or Preventing Extinctions Programme Supporter, we are waiting to hear from you so please contact us today. You can email us at: species.champions@birdlife.org Call us on: +44 (0) 1223 277 318 or Write to us at: BirdLife Species Champions, BirdLife International, Wellbrook Court, Girton Road, Cambridge, CB3 0NA, United Kingdom For further details and to download a brochure see www.birdlife.org/extinctions PREVENTING EXTINCTIONS PROGRAMME I 2012
Species Champions
British Birdwatching Fair - Founding Global Sponsor
Angry Birds
Bird Holidays
Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund
Dutch Birding Association
Petra Diamonds
Birdwatch Magazine
Gardenature
Philippines Department of Tourism
Rockjumper Birding Tours
Viking Optical
RSPB
Digital Spring
Heritage Expeditions
Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation
Save Our Species Fund
Vogelbescherming Nederland
BTO
Rare Bird Alert
Mohammed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund
Rare Bird Alert Belgium
Sveridges Ornitologiska Forening
WANT Expeditions
Disney Friends for Nature
Swarovski Optik
WildSounds
Paignton Zoo Environmental Park
Rio Tinto
TheBirdersReport.com
Winchester College
HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, Sir David Attenborough, The Blackwood Family, Nigel Bowen-Morris, The Ellis Family, Chris Goodwin, Martin Hale, Joan M Harvey, Erik Hirschfeld (Rare Birds Yearbook), Helena Jefferson, Ed Keeble, Ceri Levy, Steve Martin, Charlie Moores, The MacKinnon Family, The Olewine Family, Rory McCann, Mike McGrady, Palabora Mining Company, Peter Oakley, The Prentice Family, The Reissing Family, Colin Shields, Peter Smith, Urs-Peter Stäuble, Klemens Steiof, Michael Schmitz, Terry Townshend, Noel & Hilary Woodhead Other Major Supporters Charities Advisory Trust, Charl van der Merwe Trust, Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund, David & Lucile Packard Foundation, James Gibson Charitable Trust, Macquarie Group Foundation, The Peter Smith Trust, Taiwan International Collaboration and Development Fund, Tasso Leventis Foundation, The Tolkien Trust PEP Supporters African Bird Club, Gleb Antonov, Richard Amos, Aquila Media, Arbutus Images, Marcia Arland, John S Austin, David Bakewell, David Bell, Birding Navarra, Birdstack.com, Raymond Bloch, Lambert Blokhuis, Roman Bodinek, Olivier Boissier, Ian Bradshaw, David Brown, Steve Chastell, Joseph J Childs, Sam Chipote, Rohan Clarke, Anthony J Collerton, Mark Constantine, David Czaplak, Robert Crossman, Stephen Daly, Kevin Davis, Bertus De Lange, Steve Dudley, Stephen Dungey, Andrew Dobson, Charles Duncan, Martin Eccles, Stephen D Eccles, Norman Ellstrand, Phillip Erven, Melanie Farmer, Elizabeth J Fenton, Mathis Feuersenge, Field Guides Incorporated, Raymond Finn, Stewart Ford, Julian E Francis, Geoff Robinson Photography, Richard Gillam, Angelika Goeser, Vicky Graham, Kari Haataja, Richard E Hale, Frank D Hamilton, Justin Hart, Brenton J Head, Elfrida Heath, Otto Heeg, Peter Hendley, Agneta Heuman, Erik Hirschfeld, Nigel D Hewitt, Jeff Hoppes, Chris Hughes, Adrienne Hulf, John Humphreys, S M Hunt, Stephen Hunter, in focus, Ingrid Isaksen, Thierry Jansen, Daniel Jenkins-Jones, Catherine Johnson, Richard Johnson, Sonia Jupp, Kalikora Books, Niall Keogh, Wolfgang Koschel, Michael Barry Lancaster, Richard R Langley, Elvet Lewis, Antti J Lind, Konrad Lindemann, Svend Linderstrom, James Lowther, Ulrich Mahler, Raimundo Martin, Marjorie Mann, Bruce McCay, David Melzack, Basil C Morson, Neil Multack, Natural History Book Service, Bjorn Norden, Des Norden, SJ O’Byrne, Jan Oldebring, Guy R Oxborough, Alan J Parfitt, Johnny Parks, Andy Paterson, Stephen Peel, Permian, Jean Ploetscher, Porzana Ltd, Prion Ltd, Gareth D Rees, Stuart Reeves, Darren Riley, John M Robertson, Beryl G Roth, Charles Rowney, Royal Navy Birdwatching Society, Steve Rutledge, Safari West Inc, Gavin Salisbury, Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society, Alberto Savijn, Hans Semeins, Dubi Shapiro, Sam Shaw, Mike Shurmer, Roderic N Simpson, Sociedad Espanola de Ornitologia, Jennifer T Spring-Smyth, Hugh Stancliffe, Sarah Stevens, Mathew Storey, Eva Streit, Peter Sziemer, 10000birds.com, Conservation Club, Fabian Teves, Stephen Thal, E A Thomas, Elaine Thomas, Philip J Tizzard, Hazel Underwood, Ewan Urquhart, Miriam Van den Bosch, Lex Van Groningen, Marcy Valley, Carlos Vilhena, Nigel Voaden, Franziska Vogel, Judith Webster, David Weeshoff, John White, Andrew O Wilkie, Duncan Wilson, David Wingate, Hugo G Wood Homer, theworldsrarestbirds.com, Lisa Yntema, Michael R Zeiss, Han Zevenhuisen
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Andorra
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burkina
Burundi
Cameroon
Canada
Canada
Chile
Cook Islands
Cote d’Ivoire
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
Ethiopia
Falklands Islands
Faroe Islands
Finland
France
French Polynesia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Kazakstan
Kenya
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lebanon
Liberia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Malta
Mexico
Myanmar
Nepal
Netherlands
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Paraguay
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Rwanda
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tanzania
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
UK
Ukraine
Uruguay
USA
Uzbekistan
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Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe