It was formerly named was International Council for Bird Preservation.
It was established on 1922
It is an international not-for-profi t, non-governmental organization
Headquarters: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Mission: Global partnership of conservation organizations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources
It is the world’s largest partnership of conservation organizations,
Offi cial listing authority for birds for the World Conservation Union’s Red List of threatened species
Regional work:BirdLife International has conservation work programmes in the following parts of the world, which it describes as “regions” – Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Central Asia, the Middle East and the Pacifi c
BirdLife partnership has 6 Regional BirdLife Coordination Offi ces throughout the world and a Global Offi ce in Cambridge, UK – together known as “The BirdLife International Secretariat”.
The Secretariat co-ordinate and facilitate the BirdLife International strategies, programmers, and policies.
Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identifi ed using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
Criteria are:
A1. Globally threatened species — hold a population of a species categorized by the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered, Endangered, or Vulnerable.
A2. Restricted-range species
A3. Biome-restricted species — adequate representation of all species restricted to a given biome, both across the biome as a whole and for all of its species in each range state.
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