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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

We're fighting to get Atlantic albatrosses off the hook

9 November 2009

Albatrosses and seabirds are dying in unsustainable numbers in the Atlantic swordfish and tuna fisheries. The RSPB is taking the fight to Brazil to campaign for better protection for these seabirds.

Lesser flamingos at Lake Natron

The future is more rosy with flamingos

26 October 2009

Villagers bordering Lake Natron say that protecting the world's most important site for lesser flamingos will create a better future for local inhabitants.

Aquatic warbler at West Bexington, Dorset

Poland's Government spares threatened wildlife from road development

21 October 2009

After a seven-year campaign some of Europe's most important wildlife sites, in north-east Poland, have been spared the ravages of an environmentally-damaging road development.

Gurney's pitta on forest floor

Brighter future for rainbow bird

20 October 2009

Once thought to be one of the world's rarest birds, new research reveals the Gurney's pitta has a population of several thousand pairs, but for how long?

Nightingale perched on branch

Researchers fly south for the winter

9 October 2009

The RSPB and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), have joined forces to mount the largest research project of its type to understand more about our birds that spend the winter south of the Sahara desert

Bald ibis with tracking tag

Extinction fears raised for Middle East's rarest bird

28 September 2009

Conservationists trying to prevent the extinction of the northern bald ibis – one of the world’s rarest birds – are distraught that one of the last remaining wild birds in the Middle East has been shot by a hunter in Saudi Arabia.

Dead marsh harrier found in Malta

Volunteers reveal scale of Maltese bird massacre

21 September 2009

The discovery of the corpses of 137 protected birds, such as birds of prey and herons, concealed in a wood used by scores of hunters has highlighted fears over the extent of illegal hunting in Malta.

Balearic shearwater about to land

Time for an end to seabird deaths

15 September 2009

The RSPB and BirdLife International today will be urging the European Fisheries Commissioner, Joe Borg, to take action to prevent the deaths of over 200,000 seabirds which are killed in fisheries in European waters every year.

Juvenile turtle dove on ground

Malta breached bird protection laws says European court

11 September 2009

In a verdict delivered ths week the European Court of Justice declared that Malta has breached European law by allowing spring hunting of turtle dove and quail in the years 2004-2007.

Ivory-billed woodpecker

Quest launched to find 'lost' birds

21 August 2009

We're looking for 47 species of bird that haven't been seen for up to 184 years.

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