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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 3h

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 3h

Our new report shows how energy and nature goals can be aligned.

It highlights examples from our national Partners, including progress and gaps that slow down biodiversity protection and the rapid renewables expansion.

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 3h

🚨 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 🚨

This is a critical moment. Several major EU laws – regarding energy transition - are implemented.

The EU is on course for a 54% climate emissions cut by 2030, but none of the specific biodiversity goals are currently on track.

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 4h

This is an important step forward. Not only for Vjosa Narta, but for protected areas around the world facing similar pressures.

Now, governments around the world must act on this commitment. Together, we can safeguard nature for wildlife, communities, and generations to come.
📷 Yves Adams. PPNEA

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 4h

The motion calls on Albania, which is also an IUCN member, to restore its environmental safeguards and urges all governments to keep their protected areas off-limits to destructive infrastructure.

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 4h

Earlier this month, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the world’s leading authority on nature conservation, saw more than 98% of its members vote in favour of Motion 130. The global decision reaffirms that protected areas exist for conservation, not mass tourism development.

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 4h

Instead of safeguarding Albania’s natural heritage, the changed law now puts the private gain of a select few ahead of the common good.

But there is hope.

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 4h

One of these places is the Vjosa Narta Protected Landscape, a haven for over 200 bird species.

Once safeguarded by law, an international airport is already being constructed in the heart of this irreplaceable area and plans for a 10,000-rooms luxury resort complex are already on the table.

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 4h

🚨Protected areas are not development zones. 🚨

In 2024, Albania shockingly changed its Protected Areas Law to allow the construction of airports, resorts, and other developments inside protected areas.

This opened the door to projects that threaten some of the country’s most valuable natural sites.

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 22h

The EU’s forests are vital for our #Climate and #Biodiversity goals 🌲

Efforts by Finland & Sweden to weaken the #LULUCF Regulation threaten this progress.🚫

Joined by international NGOs, we stand up for strong, science-based climate policy.

Read our letter 👉
www.eubioenergy.com/wp-content/u...

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 1d

But large-scale restoration needs strong political backing. People want to hashtag#restorenature and our Partners can make it happen in the field. So, let’s make it happen. 💪

🔗 Learn more about the survey: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...

German citizens urge politicians to do more to restore nature

A recent public opinion poll from NABU shows overwhelming support for the Nature Restoration Law.

www.birdlife.org

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 1d

🐦NABU’s nature restoration work across Germany, from the Havel River in Brandenburg to the Federsee Moor in Baden-Württemberg, shows how nature can be protected, habitats restored, and resilience to the climate crisis strengthened.

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 1d

his law was that adopted in 2024 and aims to restore at least 20 % of the EU’s land and sea areas by 2030 and repair all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050.

Even more encouraging: three quarters of people say that politicians must do more to make nature restoration a reality.

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 1d

🌿 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻! 🌿

New survey results from our German Partner NABU e.V. and the research institute Civey show overwhelming public support in Germany for restoring nature: 85% of respondents back the EU Nature Restoration Law.

#RestoreNature

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 1d

📸 by Lars Soerink; Giuseppe Giglio - Shutterstock

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 1d

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭: 𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐬 🦅🌊

The Italian government’s plan to build a bridge across the Strait could endanger thousands of birds, disrupting one of Europe’s most important migratory corridors. 🙅

Find out more: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 4d

Pictures by Romanian Ornithological Society; Latvian Ornithological Society; BirdLife Estonia.

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 4d

On 4-5 October 2025, more than 27k people took part in EuroBirdwatch 2025! 🦅👀

Across Europe and Central Asia, 34 national BirdLife partners hosted over 800 events, observing together over 2.8 million birds heading south to their wintering grounds

Find out more: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...

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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · 5d

🚨2025 #RedList Update🚨

We have reassessed 1,360 bird species. Out of the 11,185 species assessed worldwide: 

⚠️11.5% are globally threatened.

📉61% have declining populations.

But restoring habitats will help put these species on a path to recovery.🌱

Read more👉 www.birdlife.org/red-list-upd...

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 6d

🐦 Last week, our annual Fundraising Working Group meeting took place in Zrenjanin, hosted by our partner, the Bird Protection and Study Society of Serbia!

During the meeting, our partners were able to improve everyone’s fundraising skills and also got to visit Serbia’s largest wetland, Carska Bara.

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 6d

Food concerns everyone, and so do the rules that protect it. If the EU rolls back food and pesticide laws, we all lose: our health, nature, clean water.

We built these protections together over time. Now let’s defend them.

Speak up now: www.pan-europe.info/ban-toxic-pe...

#HandsOffNature

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 7d

Marilda Dhaskali, Senior Agriculture and Land-use Policy Officer, BirdLife Europe: “Today the EU parliament chose, once again, to set farming and farmers up for total failure. We call on Member States and the European Commission to immediately stop this dangerous rollback for nature."

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 7d

- 𝗨𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 by pushing through yet another round of hasty and unclear changes.

- At a time of record fires and droughts, we should be helping farmers to adapt to the climate crisis and work with nature, not gutting the very rules that protect it.

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 7d

Why?
- 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 for polluting and destructive farming practices to operate in the heart of protected areas.,

- 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗨 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 by removing the obligation to take measures against soil erosion.

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 7d

We don’t need less rules, we need to focus on properly implementing the rules we have and support farmers that are acting for nature.

This vote is irresponsible and a dangerous step backward for Europe’s environment, climate, and food security.

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