Leaving is Living · BirdLife News · 2026

Anti-Poaching

The fight against illegal killing: patrols, traps removed, prosecutions and the laws that protect wild birds.

The Law Is on the Lookout for Feathered Friends

The Law Is on the Lookout for Feathered Friends

The EU Birds Directive, the Bern Convention and national courts: how the law protects wild birds — and why enforcement matters.

Three Thousand Traps Fewer: A Season in the Sulcis Woods

Three Thousand Traps Fewer: A Season in the Sulcis Woods

How rangers, volunteers and dog units cleared 3,000 illegal traps from Sardinia’s holm-oak forests — a template for the Mediterranean.