Birdlife Australia: Saving Birds, Saving Life
Bruny Island
In BirdLife Australia, our role is we're a national organisation, and we're one of the peak bodies for birds and bird conservation across Australia. We identify some of the most threatened birds in amazing and unique landscapes and identify them for protection.
Our overarching goal is to halt the extinction crisis and recover some of those threatened birds across Australia.
For example, Lyndal Wilson, is the terrestrial birds program leader. Lyndal's role oversees some of the most threatened terrestrial birds which includes our black cockatoos, our woodland birds, malee species and some of those bushfire and climate refugia species that we need to protect. Across Australia we work with a range of partners and stakeholders and identify the strategies to recover those species and bring them back, because they have a really important role in the ecology and providing ecosystem services.
They are also indicators for the health of our landscape. So it's a really critical role to oversee and protect birds knowing that they are flagships for so many other species, habitats and landscapes and natural functioning of the planet
There's a lot of climate change impacts going on that creates a need to really identify those valuable habitats. What BirdLife Australia does, through our branches across Australia, and many volunteers, we identify those areas where there's the most critical habitat for those really threatened species through field-based monitoring, surveying, and long-term monitoring programs.
So we get really long-term data sets and understand trends. We feed that information into expert data that helps identify those key recovery actions, and feeds into the legislation.
So our role is to keep that data contemporary, and make sure that the actions that are identified for recovery reflect the needs on the ground.
So BirdLife Australia works with a range of partners across Australia looking at those big, key threats, identifying the risks. We're identifying these to our Federal and State governments in terms of the legislative needs. We're also identifying the on-ground actions and we're also monitoring birds to make sure we understand the population status and trajectory.
In BirdLife Australia, our role is we're a national organisation, and we're one of the peak bodies for birds and bird conservation across Australia. We identify some of the most threatened birds in amazing and unique landscapes and identify them for protection.
Our overarching goal is to halt the extinction crisis and recover some of those threatened birds across Australia.
For example, Lyndal Wilson, is the terrestrial birds program leader. Lyndal's role oversees some of the most threatened terrestrial birds which includes our black cockatoos, our woodland birds, malee species and some of those bushfire and climate refugia species that we need to protect. Across Australia we work with a range of partners and stakeholders and identify the strategies to recover those species and bring them back, because they have a really important role in the ecology and providing ecosystem services.
They are also indicators for the health of our landscape. So it's a really critical role to oversee and protect birds knowing that they are flagships for so many other species, habitats and landscapes and natural functioning of the planet
There's a lot of climate change impacts going on that creates a need to really identify those valuable habitats. What BirdLife Australia does, through our branches across Australia, and many volunteers, we identify those areas where there's the most critical habitat for those really threatened species through field-based monitoring, surveying, and long-term monitoring programs.
So we get really long-term data sets and understand trends. We feed that information into expert data that helps identify those key recovery actions, and feeds into the legislation.
So our role is to keep that data contemporary, and make sure that the actions that are identified for recovery reflect the needs on the ground.
So BirdLife Australia works with a range of partners across Australia looking at those big, key threats, identifying the risks. We're identifying these to our Federal and State governments in terms of the legislative needs. We're also identifying the on-ground actions and we're also monitoring birds to make sure we understand the population status and trajectory.
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