State of World’s birds : taking the pulse of the planet/
editor in chief Tris Allinson ; assistant editor Emma Vovk ; consulting editors Ian Burfield, Stuart Butchart, Alex Dale, Melanie Heath
- 76 pages: col. ill., photos, figure; 29 cm.
CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 0 4 FOREWORD 0 5 INTRODUCTION: THE IMPORTANCE OF BIRDS 0 6 BIRDS: NATURE AT ITS MOST ENTHRALLING 08 BIRDS UNITE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD FOR CONSERVATION 10 UNDERSTANDING THE BIODIVERSITY CRISIS THROUGH BIRDS 12 THE SCIENCE THAT UNDERPINS GLOBAL CONSERVATION: THE IUCN RED LIST 14 THE SCIENCE THAT UNDERPINS GLOBAL CONSERVATION: IMPORTANT BIRD AND BIODIVERSITY AREAS 16 S TAT E : W H AT W E K N O W A B O U T T H E C O N S E RVAT I O N STATUS OF BIRDS 1 8 GLOBALLY BIRDS CONTINUE TO DECLINE AND GO EXTINCT 20 THE EXTINCTION CRISIS DEEPENS 22 SOME BIRD SPECIES AND GROUPS ARE DECLINING FAST 24 ESSENTIAL ECOSYSTEMS ARE IN PERIL 26 PRESSURE: WHY BIRDS ARE DECLINING 2 8 HUMAN ACTIONS ARE DRIVING THE BIODIVERSITY CRISIS 30 UNSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES 32 DEFORESTATION AND UNSUSTAINABLE LOGGING 34 THE CATASTROPHIC IMPACT OF INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES 36 OVEREXPLOITATION 38 UNSUSTAINABLE AND POORLY PLANNED INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT 40 SEABIRDS ARE IN SERIOUS DANGER FROM FISHERIES BYCATCH 42 CLIMATE CHANGE IS ALREADY HAVING NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON NATURE 44 ULTIMATELY, HUMAN OVERCONSUMPTION LIES BEHIND THE GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY CRISIS 46 R E S P O N S E : T H E A C T I O N S N E E D E D T O CONSERVE BIRDS AND BIODIVERSITY 4 8 DESPITE THE SCALE OF THE CHALLENGE, CONSERVATION IS WORKING 50 PROTECTING THE MOST IMPORTANT SITES FOR BIRDS AND WIDER BIODIVERSITY 52 HABITAT RESTORATION IS ESSENTIAL 54 ERADICATION AND CONTROL OF INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES 56 TARGETED SPECIES RECOVERY 58 CAPTIVE BREEDING AND REINTRODUCTION 60 CURBING THE OVEREXPLOITATION OF BIRDS 62 EDUCATION AND AWARENESS RAISING 64 ECONOMIC AND LIVELIHOODS INCENTIVES 66 THE IMPORTANCE OF INFLUENCING POLICY AND LEGISLATION 68 CAMPAIGNING 70 EVIDENCE-BASED CONSERVATION IS CRUCIAL 72 TURNING A CORNER - WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN NOW 74 DELIVERING BIRDLIFE’S BIODIVERSITY KNOWLEDGE TO IMPROVE DECISIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 76