International Cooperation

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The Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Birds belongs to the network of the BirdLife International Partnership. The Partnership Partnership strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.

BirdLife International is a Partnership of independent conservation organisations in more than 100 countries, linking birds, habitats and people to make a difference to the quality of life on earth. The BirdLife Partnership works on shared priorities, policies and programmes for conservation action, exchanging skills, achievements and information. BirdLife works with local communities to promote sustainable living as a means of conserving birds and all other forms of biodiversity.

Over the last decade, BirdLife has built an unparalleled dataset of the distribution and trends of biodiversity across the globe using birds as indicators. Birds are popular in all cultures, and are an excellent focus for bringing people together and promoting awareness and interest in the environment. The BirdLife Partnership is a unique force that fuses these attributes - popular appeal and highly credible data - through a global network that works nationally and locally. This network includes 103 national NGOs with a combined membership of 2.7 million, a professional conservation staff of over 4,000 and a combined annual turnover of US$269 million. It is the largest international conservation network in the world.

BirdLife 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 is working 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.

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2002-2007