Shooting, trapping, poisoning.
Millions of migratory birds are slaughtered illegally as they make nature’s most incredible journey. Follow these magnificent birds on their epic flight for survival.
BirdLife International has exposed the illegal mass slaughter of migratory birds across the Mediterranean, Northern Europe and the Caucasus. Every year, an average of 25 000 000 birds are unlawfully shot, trapped or poisoned, from the smallest songbirds to the most powerful birds of prey. Endangered species, already hit hard by habitat loss and climate change, are being pushed closer to extinction – and all in open defiance of the law.
We are following the spectacular migratory journeys of these birds and exposing the different dangers they face at some of the worst illegal killing blackspots along the African-Eurasian flyway.
Birds know no borders; migration routes cross countries and even continents. BirdLife International is the largest nature conservation partnership in the world. Together with our national partners, we’re working to protect migratory birds at a flyway scale – but we need your help.
With your support, we can combat human threats to migratory birds at their wintering, breeding and stopover grounds and take targeted conservation action to end illegal killing at some of the worst blackspots along the African-Eurasian flyway.
March 14, 2023
Northern Bald Ibis violently killed in the Neretva Delta: a blow to to the return of an extinct species
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March 2, 2023
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February 13, 2023
A 54-year-old man from Šabac, Serbia was arrested and detained under suspicion of capturing and injuring a Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo), a bird of prey which […]
December 20, 2022
Hunters and ornithologists partner up to end raptor persecution
December 20, 2022Despite efforts to tackle the illegal killing of birds in Denmark, the illegal poisoning, shooting, and trapping of birds of prey remains a problem in Denmark. […]
