{"id":16953,"date":"2021-12-14T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T14:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/?p=16953"},"modified":"2021-12-21T16:51:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T14:51:42","slug":"2021-highlights-from-the-birdlife-europe-and-central-asia-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/2021-highlights-from-the-birdlife-europe-and-central-asia-year\/","title":{"rendered":"2021: highlights from the BirdLife Europe and Central Asia year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a deeply challenging year. The pandemic has continued to cause enormous suffering while floods and fires across our continent this summer showed that climate crisis is biting hard\u043b<\/p>\n<p>the scale of <strong>the threat facing nature<\/strong> was illustrated by two reports this autumn confirming that one in five European bird species were at risk of extinction while there are now 600 million fewer birds in the European Union and the UK than there were forty years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the political response is still falling short. <strong>The negotiations to secure a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbd.int\/article\/draft-1-global-biodiversity-framework\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">global biodiversity framework<\/a>\u00a0have been once again delayed <\/strong>and political progress in translating these commitments into national policies and laws (for example, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/environment\/strategy\/biodiversity-strategy-2030_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/our-work\/rspb-news\/news\/stories\/environment-bill-royal-assent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>) appear once again to be derailed by a failure to adequately address the primary driver of decline \u2013 agriculture policy. <strong>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/cop26-key-outcomes-agreed-at-the-un-climate-talks-in-glasgow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Glasgow Climate Pact<\/a>\u00a0was probably the best deal<\/strong> that was politically achievable but based on national commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, projected warming by 2100 could still be as much as 2.4<sup>\u00b0<\/sup>C (above pre-industrial levels) which, of course, exceeds the 1.5\u00b0C target beyond which catastrophic consequences are predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, despite everything, <strong>BirdLife partners in Europe and Central Asia have achieved some amazing things this year<\/strong> (both together and as individual organisations). We are happy and proud that BSPB&#8217;s accomplishments have been mentioned amongst them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdlife.org\/news\/2021\/10\/08\/un-human-rights-council-approves-universal-right-to-healthy-environment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UN Human Rights Council voted unanimously in favour<\/a> of introducing a new human right: the right to a healthy environment. This fantastic success is the result of more than a year of advocacy work by BirdLife\u2019s #1Planet1Right campaign.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Massive new Marine Protected Area<\/strong>. A major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic high seas used by up to 5 million birds was discovered. This area is now a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdlife.org\/news\/2021\/10\/12\/satellite-tagged-seabirds-point-way-to-new-protected-area\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marine Protected Area called NACES<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the North Atlantic Current and Evlanov Seamount and is approximately the same size as all of France. This is the first time that a Marine Protected Area in the high seas has been designated based on tracking data.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.natuurpunt.be\/pagina\/kraanvogels-gru-en-dru-de-vallei-van-de-zwarte-beek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Natuurpunt reported<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.natuurpunt.be\/pagina\/kraanvogels-gru-en-dru-de-vallei-van-de-zwarte-beek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.natuurpunt.be\/pagina\/kraanvogels-gru-en-dru-de-vallei-van-de-zwarte-beek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">successful breeding of the Common Crane in the \u2018Vallei van de Zwarte Beek\u2019 nature reserve<\/a>. \u00a0They are the first in Flanders in over 400 years thanks to a large-scale peatland restoration in the nature reserve by Natuurpunt.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/life-pelicans.com\/news\/artificial-birds-attracted-dalmatian-pelicans-for-nesting-in-bulgaria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BSPB reported a new nesting colony of the endangered Dalmatian Pelican was settled in Bulgaria in the Kalimok Complex<\/a>. A wooden platform was built and three life-size models of pelicans were installed to attract the interest of real birds and encourage them to adopt the platform as their home. On the 23rd of April 2021, a total of 14 birds were found there \u2013 three of them occupying the nests.<\/li>\n<li>For more than 2 years, the Hellenic Ornithological Society (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ornithologiki.gr\/en\/public-awareness-education\/information\/62-english\/news\/134-emvlimatiki-niki-gia-tis-nisides-tou-n-aigaiou-kai-ti-viopoikilotita-tou-nisiotikoy-xorou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HOS) has fought to prevent turning the protected islets of the South Aegean Sea<\/a> into platforms for the erection of hundreds of wind turbines, right at the \u201cheart\u201d of one of the last refuges for biodiversity in Europe.\u00a0 Despite the challenges and difficulties, HOS succeeded.<\/li>\n<li>The Czech Society for Ornithology (CSO) reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/imperialeagle.eu\/en\/content\/bird-prey-poisoner-convicted-czechia-first-time-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thanks to the CSO dog unit, a bird poisoner was found guilty and sentenced to 2.5 years in jail<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>After a fifteen year effort, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeangreenbelt.org\/news\/news\/osogovo-mountains-finally-recognised-as-national-treasure-for-a-proper-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macedonia Ecological Society was delighted that the Osogovo Mountains was declared a protected area<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the largest in the eastern part of the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_11518\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11518\" class=\"wp-image-11519 size-large lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/bspb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSCN6747-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\u0418\u0437\u043a\u0443\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u0438 \u043f\u043b\u0430\u0442\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u0438 \u0441 \u043a\u044a\u0434\u0440\u043e\u0433\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0438 \u043f\u0435\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0430\u043d\u0438\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/bspb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSCN6747-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/bspb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSCN6747-480x360.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/768;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Svilen Cheshmedzhiev<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>This is a small part of our success in 2021. <\/strong>You can read the full article with the accomplishments of the BirdLife partners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdlife.org\/news\/2021\/12\/13\/2021-highlights-from-the-birdlife-europe-and-central-asia-year\/\">here<\/a>, and we will continue our work with the hope that 2022 will bring us even more amazing success stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a deeply challenging year. The pandemic has continued to cause enormous suffering while floods and fires across our continent this summer showed that climate crisis is biting hard\u043b the scale of the threat facing nature was illustrated by two reports this autumn confirming that one in five European bird species were at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-16953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16953"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=16953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}