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BirdLife Cyprus runs a number of campaigns and monitoring projects to ensure it can fight against activities that threaten wild birds such as illegal hunting, trapping and the destruction and degradation of habitats, with particular focus on Important Bird Areas (IBAs) and their designation as Special Protection Areas (SPAs). EU Birds and Habitats Directives BirdLife positions on key aspects of these EU nature laws can be downloaded here. What are the Birds and Habitats Directives? Case studies on Natura 2000 and economic development The Management of Natura 2000 sites Nature conservation and EU biodiversity policy Nature conservation and climate change Financing for biodiversity conservation Nature conservation and hunting Nature conservation and land use The socio-economic benefits of Natura 2000 sites Case studies on species protection Nature conservation and wind energy Protection of Natura 2000 sites and economic development |
| Biodiversity 2010 report |
Biodiversity: do we have the courage to save it? Today, World Biodiversity Day, with its groundbreaking new report on the state of biodiversity in the EU, BirdLife International denounces the EU’s failure to reach its target of halting biodiversity loss by 2010 and indicates the necessary steps needed to stop the loss of biodiversity and to enhance its recovery in the EU. Cyprus does not compare well with other EU Member States on the biodiversity issue. |
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| Press Release |
| World governments fail to deliver on 2010 biodiversity targetCyprus also in the “must do better” category Press Releae Nicosia, 29th April 2010 World leaders have failed to deliver commitments made in 2002 to reduce the global rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, and have instead overseen alarming biodiversity declines. These findings are the result of a new paper published in the leading journal Science and represent the first assessment of how the targets made through the 2002 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have not been met. |
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| Biodiversity Tragets for 2020 |
| Cyprus set to support ambitious 2020 biodiversity target, but will the EU Environment Council match this ambition? BirdLife Cyprus Press Release Brussels & Nicosia, 15 March 2010 – BirdLife International and its local partner, BirdLife Cyprus, hold high expectations for the meeting of the Environment Council which takes place in Brussels today, as European Environment Ministers get together to discuss the 2020 Biodiversity target. Last January, the European Commission published its communication presenting 4 options for an EU vision and target for halting the loss of biodiversity beyond 2010. |
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| Spring Alive 2010 |
| Help us record the coming of Spring! BirdLife Cyprus Press Release Nicosia, 26 February 2010 Swallows and other migratory birds returning to Europe from far-off Africa are the traditional heralds of the arrival of spring. BirdLife Cyprus invites everyone to celebrate the end of winter and the return of migratory birds by participating in Europe’s biggest spring birdwatch, called Spring Alive. Everyone, but especially children all around Europe can record the first arrivals of migratory birds by participating in Spring Alive campaign. |
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| Autumn Trapping 2009 |
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE TRAPPING FRONT BirdLife Cyprus Press Release December 2009AUTUMN 2009 was a disastrous season for bird trapping, with mist net use up by 35% compared to the autumn of 2008, limestick use also on the rise and restaurants widely flouting the law by serving ambelopoulia “delicacies”. On the eve of 2010, the international year of biodiversity, the latest findings from BirdLife’s ongoing field monitoring show that Cyprus is now seriously loosing ground in the battle against bird trapping, an illegal and indiscriminate practice that threatens many bird species of conservation concern, and migrants especially. |
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