BirdLife International is a global Partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.

BirdLife International’s Vision 

Birds are beautiful, inspirational and international. Birds are excellent flagships and vital environmental indicators.

By focusing on birds, and the sites and habitats on which they depend, the BirdLife Partnership works to improve the quality of life for birds, for other wildlife (biodiversity), and for people.

BirdLife’s aims are to:

• prevent the extinction of any bird species
• maintain and where possible improve the conservation status of all bird species
• conserve and where appropriate improve and enlarge sites and habitats important for birds
• help, through birds, to conserve biodiversity and to improve the quality of people’s lives
• integrate bird conservation into sustaining people’s livelihoods

BirdLife International was founded in 1922 by American ornithologists T. Gilbert Pearson and Jean Theodore Delacour as the International Council for Bird Preservation. This lobbying group fell into disuse after World War II. It became active again in 1983 with the appointment of a professional director, and changed its name in 1993 to Birdlife International.

BirdLife International History

BirdLife International was founded in 1922 by American ornithologists T. Gilbert Pearson and Jean Theodore Delacour as the International Council for Bird Preservation. This lobbying group fell into disuse after World War II. It became active again in 1983 with the appointment of a professional director, and changed its name in 1993 to Birdlife International.

BirdLife International