Working with Birdlife International

Forest and Bird, Issue 291, 1 February 1999, Page 50

Working with Birdlife International

Forest and Bird is to resume its membership of Birdlife International, formerly the International Council for the Protection of Birds. The organisation, based in Cambridge, UK, has regional offices monitoring and encouraging research into birds in nearly every part of the globe excepting Oceania. Under the arrangement, Forest and Bird will act as a contact for people working for the conservation of birds in New Zealand and its territories. Birdlife International facilitates some research while helping make links between regions which share the same concerns. New Zealand with its range of migratory birds — waders, seabirds and cuckoos for examples — is thus part of the broader world of birds with which Birdlife International is concerned. The organisation is also concerned with programmes to

recover populations of threatened birds, another aspect particularly relevant in New Zealand. First steps in making the link where taken by the Forest and Bird executive meeting at Flock House, near Bulls. Dr Garry Allport, head of the African bureau of Birdlife International, talked about the organisation’s work to Forest and Bird’s November council meeting.