Rare songbirds arrive at Newquay Zoo
Author: Newquay Zoo, United Kingdom One of the most endangered songbirds in the world has arrived at Newquay Zoo. The Cornish charity zoo is one of only five collections in Europe where Javan green magpies can be seen, making them the rarest species at the zoo. Native to Java, in Indonesia, the Javan green magpie […]
Tune in a radio that you won´t turn off
Authors: Jan Kužník (Technet.cz, Prague, Czech Republic) and Matyáš Adam (Zoo Liberec, Czech Republic) Birds, insects, hedgehogs, frogs, wildlife. Thousands of animals on Slow Radio http://www.slowradio.cz/en. After the winter break, Slow Radio starts again. It broadcasts live, continuously and through professional microphones from a secret place in the middle of a bird paradise in southern Bohemia. […]
Adam Miller, a young American trying to stop the illegal bird trade, wins Future For Nature Award 2018
Since 2008, the Future for Nature foundation has supported 30 successful conservationists all around the world, each passionately working on environmental protection, and with result. Besides supporting these remarkable people financially, FFN also want to provide a platform to showcase their work and studies and open doors towards a broader network. On April 20 2018 […]
Silent Forest hits the headlines
Congratulations to Cologne Zoo, Germany, for their significant involvement in the Silent Forest Campaign! This time, it is via colorful articles in the Kölner Zoo Magazin (edition Summer 2018) that they raise awareness of Southeast Asian Songbirds status but also of their European counterparts situation. They especially talk about the Bird of the year 2018: […]
Buy Art, Save All the Birds
No need to be a big zoo or non-profit organization to raise awareness for wildlife conservation and help fight the Songbirds crisis: meet Alyssa Rice and her amazing All the birds project. Passionate about animals, Alyssa promotes conservation through her drawings. She suggested three conservation projects to her followers who voted for the Silent […]
World Sparrow Day – what is your zoo doing for wild Sparrows?
Author: Ruth Dieckmann (Cologne Zoo, Germany) The 20th of March 2018 is World Sparrow Day! Sparrows are in serious decline in Europe, not because of the Asian Songbird Crisis or trade but because of their decreasing access to food and nesting grounds near Human settlements. In Germany, the populations of House sparrows (Passer […]
12th of March 2018 Alle Vöglein sind schon da…
Author: Constanze Mager (Burgers’ Zoo, Arnhem, The Netherlands) Even though the whole world seems to be skyping – and the campaign team certainly does quite regularly skype with each other – a face to face meeting every once in a while is really useful, too. Unfortunately, travelling across Europe to see each other is rather […]
Hunted – Trapped – Killed: Illegal Bird-Catching
Author: Simon Bruslund (Heidelberg Zoo, Heidelberg, Germany) The Erfurt Museum of Natural History, Germany, is presenting an exhibition about illegal bird trapping and have included extensive information on the Silent Forest Campaign. For this purpose, the Museum signed up as a non-EAZA participant to the campaign in preparation of the exhibition. This is an excellent […]
The Elusive Mountain Spirit of the Omei Mountains
Author: Chris Green (Cotswold Wildlife Park, Oxfordshire, UK) The Emei Shan Liocichla (Liocichla omeiensis) also known as Mt. Omei Babblers are one of five, restricted range, species in the genus which are among the smaller members of the Laughingthrush family. This species is internationally protected in CITES Appendix II and also locally fully protected in […]
What if saving Songbirds started in Schools?
Author: Simon Bruslund (Heidelberg Zoo, Heidelberg, Germany) When going home to Denmark for Christmas, my 7-year-old nephew begged me to visit his class and talk about Animals. Soon his older brother (12) and sister (10) did too. As the date came closer, I started to get nervous. Is talking to kids the same as presenting […]