A summit
Flyways
for the
When the going
gets tough…
Migratory birds face a gauntlet of threats during their epic journeys. We’re bringing some of the
great minds, stakeholders and actors in migratory bird conservation together under one roof for
a Flyways Summit, in which session leaders attempt to answer the question: how do we best
tackle the threats facing migratory birds?
Ending the killing
Bringing an end to the illegal killing/hunting
of migratory birds
Barend van Gemerden, BirdLife’s Global Flyways Programme Coordinator
The illegal killing/hunting of migratory
birds is a pressing global conservation
issue of our time, and increasingly
on national and international
agendas, partly exacerbated by new
technologies. In the Mediterranean
alone, an estimated 25 million
migratory birds are illegally killed or
taken each year, and work elsewhere
is revealing that this is a widespread
issue. Birds are killed illegally for a
variety of socio-economic and deeply-
embedded cultural reasons, therefore,
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in addition to the immediate need for
effective enforcement alongside strong
legislation, achieving zero tolerance of
illegal killing calls for long-term change
in the attitudes of people towards
migratory birds and nature. All of
these require long-term collaboration
between many stakeholders, and we
already have some inspiring successful
examples to build from.
Key partner: Convention on Migratory
Species (CMS)
apr-jun 2018 • birdlife
April 23rd-26th 2018
Abu Dhabi, UAE