BirdLife International is a global Partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.



Mission:



The BirdLife International – Programa do Brasil was founded in 2000, seeking to ensure the sustainable conservation of a network of globally Important Bird Areas (IBAs).



Brazil is a country of large dimensions and to develop actions in an effective way, the BirdLife International – Programa do Brasil has been building a participatory local based conservation programme.



The formation of a communication network through which local site-based NGOs or Site Support Groups can exchange information, share expertise, successes and failures, appears to be a cost-effective way of enhancing the capacity of groups responsible for managing some of the world’s most important biodiversity sites.



The IBA Programme will therefore provide the framework within which BirdLife and all participating institutions can develop individual site projects, information concerning tropical forest conservation issues can be exchanged, Site Support Groups can be networked and political support can be advocated for, to prevent numerous species extinctions in some of the highest priority biodiversity sites in the Atlantic Forest corridor