Birdfair - a reputational risk
#climatechange #globalbirdfair #lowcarbonbirding
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#climatechange #globalbirdfair #lowcarbonbirding
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Birdfair: a reputational risk
By Javier caletrío Mark Avery (Birdwatch, September 2024) argues that, with its overwhelming emphasis on ‘carbon guzzling trips abroad’, Birdfair looks more like a trade fair than a birding festiva…
lowcarbonbirding.net
February 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Birdfair - a reputational risk
#climatechange #globalbirdfair #lowcarbonbirding
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#climatechange #globalbirdfair #lowcarbonbirding
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Love birds and wildlife? You’ll be in great company at the Global Birdfair. 🐦
It returns 10–12 July with three days of inspiring talks, nature walks, live podcasts, workshops and more. We’ll be there too!
Plus, every ticket supports bird conservation in São Tomé & Príncipe: globalbirdfair.org
It returns 10–12 July with three days of inspiring talks, nature walks, live podcasts, workshops and more. We’ll be there too!
Plus, every ticket supports bird conservation in São Tomé & Príncipe: globalbirdfair.org
Global BirdFair
Conserving Nature Worldwide
Join us at the Global Birdfair 2025 for an exciting celebration of birdwatching, conservation, and nature!
globalbirdfair.org
June 26, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Love birds and wildlife? You’ll be in great company at the Global Birdfair. 🐦
It returns 10–12 July with three days of inspiring talks, nature walks, live podcasts, workshops and more. We’ll be there too!
Plus, every ticket supports bird conservation in São Tomé & Príncipe: globalbirdfair.org
It returns 10–12 July with three days of inspiring talks, nature walks, live podcasts, workshops and more. We’ll be there too!
Plus, every ticket supports bird conservation in São Tomé & Príncipe: globalbirdfair.org
Birders’ support at Global Birdfair 2026 funds São Tomé conservation www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/B...
Birders’ support at Global Birdfair 2026 funds São Tomé conservation
US$150,000 raised through Global Birdfair will support work to protect three Critically Endangered birds found only on São Tomé.
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk
September 24, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Birders’ support at Global Birdfair 2026 funds São Tomé conservation www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/B...
Here she is, my finished golden eagle wool painting, still needs to be fully pressed and framed but I had to wait to finish her for the sizing.
Once framed, she will be on display and for sale on my stand in the Puffin Marquee at Global Birdfair.
#birds #sciart ##goldeneagle
Once framed, she will be on display and for sale on my stand in the Puffin Marquee at Global Birdfair.
#birds #sciart ##goldeneagle
May 30, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Here she is, my finished golden eagle wool painting, still needs to be fully pressed and framed but I had to wait to finish her for the sizing.
Once framed, she will be on display and for sale on my stand in the Puffin Marquee at Global Birdfair.
#birds #sciart ##goldeneagle
Once framed, she will be on display and for sale on my stand in the Puffin Marquee at Global Birdfair.
#birds #sciart ##goldeneagle
1/3 We’ve taken the difficult decision to not return to Global Birdfair as an exhibitor. While we recognise that Birdfair provides an opportunity to meet with members and volunteers, our continued investment in other ways to engage with supporters is proving to be a more effective use of resources.
March 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
1/3 We’ve taken the difficult decision to not return to Global Birdfair as an exhibitor. While we recognise that Birdfair provides an opportunity to meet with members and volunteers, our continued investment in other ways to engage with supporters is proving to be a more effective use of resources.
Global Birdfair has provided $150,000 to support conservation work for three of São Tomé and Príncipe's rarest endemic birds:
Global Birdfair funding offers new hope for São Tomé's rarest birds
A new $150,000 grant will support conservation work for three Critically Endangered species found only on São Tomé and Príncipe.
f.mtr.cool
September 26, 2026 at 6:16 AM
Global Birdfair has provided $150,000 to support conservation work for three of São Tomé and Príncipe's rarest endemic birds:
Left to right:
* Guy banned from Dr Who convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Happy Days convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Birdfair for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Nazi reenactment society for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Dr Who convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Happy Days convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Birdfair for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Nazi reenactment society for safeguarding reasons
January 30, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Left to right:
* Guy banned from Dr Who convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Happy Days convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Birdfair for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Nazi reenactment society for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Dr Who convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Happy Days convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Birdfair for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Nazi reenactment society for safeguarding reasons
Global Birdfair has provided $150,000 to support conservation work for three of São Tomé and Príncipe's rarest endemic birds:
Global Birdfair funding offers new hope for São Tomé's rarest birds
A new $150,000 grant will support conservation work for three Critically Endangered species found only on São Tomé and Príncipe.
f.mtr.cool
September 24, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Global Birdfair has provided $150,000 to support conservation work for three of São Tomé and Príncipe's rarest endemic birds:
We ran a stall at Global Birdfair again, six one hour bioblitzes and pan-species listed the entire event. It was ace. analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2025/08/pan-...
Pan-species Listing at Global Birdfair 2025
On the 11th, 12th & 13th July, Pan-species Listing had a presence at our second Global Birdfair and we were again listing the whole event on...
analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
We ran a stall at Global Birdfair again, six one hour bioblitzes and pan-species listed the entire event. It was ace. analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2025/08/pan-...
New hope for the Antipodean Albatross. 💫
@globalbirdfair.bsky.social has donated a record-breaking US $140,000 to support our Safeguarding Ocean Species project!
A huge thank you to the entire Global Birdfair community for their generous support. 🙏💙
Read more:
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...
@globalbirdfair.bsky.social has donated a record-breaking US $140,000 to support our Safeguarding Ocean Species project!
A huge thank you to the entire Global Birdfair community for their generous support. 🙏💙
Read more:
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...
Big boost for Antipodean Albatross – thanks to US$140,000 Global Birdfair funding
This record-breaking funding will support the Safeguarding Ocean Species project in Suva, Fiji.
www.birdlife.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
New hope for the Antipodean Albatross. 💫
@globalbirdfair.bsky.social has donated a record-breaking US $140,000 to support our Safeguarding Ocean Species project!
A huge thank you to the entire Global Birdfair community for their generous support. 🙏💙
Read more:
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...
@globalbirdfair.bsky.social has donated a record-breaking US $140,000 to support our Safeguarding Ocean Species project!
A huge thank you to the entire Global Birdfair community for their generous support. 🙏💙
Read more:
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...
We’re thrilled to share that Global Birdfair 2026 is supporting our work to protect endemic birds in São Tomé and help prevent extinctions in this incredible island nation.🤝
A heartfelt thank you to the Global Birdfair team for championing this vital work. 💚
www.birdlife.org/news/2026/04...
A heartfelt thank you to the Global Birdfair team for championing this vital work. 💚
www.birdlife.org/news/2026/04...
Guardians of São Tomé’s Rarest Birds
Global Birdfair 2026 is supporting BirdLife’s conservation work to protect endemic birds in São Tomé and prevent extinctions in the island nation.
www.birdlife.org
April 7, 2026 at 11:22 AM
We’re thrilled to share that Global Birdfair 2026 is supporting our work to protect endemic birds in São Tomé and help prevent extinctions in this incredible island nation.🤝
A heartfelt thank you to the Global Birdfair team for championing this vital work. 💚
www.birdlife.org/news/2026/04...
A heartfelt thank you to the Global Birdfair team for championing this vital work. 💚
www.birdlife.org/news/2026/04...
@rspb.bsky.social and @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social
Please stop supporting tourism to the Antarctic through the Birdfair or magazine adverts.
It’s madness.
Please stop supporting tourism to the Antarctic through the Birdfair or magazine adverts.
It’s madness.
"Antarctic tourism is growing fast, with over 120,000 visits in 2025-26 and up to 450,000 expected each summer within a decade.
...
bringing more and more people to an ecologically vulnerable area, and helping cause some of the greatest CO₂ emissions of any form of tourism."
JUST DON'T
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bringing more and more people to an ecologically vulnerable area, and helping cause some of the greatest CO₂ emissions of any form of tourism."
JUST DON'T
I’m glad some are calling this out theconversation.com/i-cant-work-...
July 23, 2026 at 5:09 AM
@rspb.bsky.social and @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social
Please stop supporting tourism to the Antarctic through the Birdfair or magazine adverts.
It’s madness.
Please stop supporting tourism to the Antarctic through the Birdfair or magazine adverts.
It’s madness.
New Global Birdfair 2025 Conservation Project Announced: Safeguarding Ocean Species!🎉
The project will support our conservation work to safeguard the Antipodean Albatross and other endangered seabirds from the threat of bycatch in the Pacific.🌊
Find out more here 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/01...
The project will support our conservation work to safeguard the Antipodean Albatross and other endangered seabirds from the threat of bycatch in the Pacific.🌊
Find out more here 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/01...
New Global Birdfair Conservation Project Announced!
Global Birdfair in 2025 will be supporting BirdLife’s conservation work to safeguard the Antipodean Albatross and other endangered seabirds from the threat of bycatch in longline fisheries in the…
www.birdlife.org
January 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
New Global Birdfair 2025 Conservation Project Announced: Safeguarding Ocean Species!🎉
The project will support our conservation work to safeguard the Antipodean Albatross and other endangered seabirds from the threat of bycatch in the Pacific.🌊
Find out more here 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/01...
The project will support our conservation work to safeguard the Antipodean Albatross and other endangered seabirds from the threat of bycatch in the Pacific.🌊
Find out more here 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/01...
Birders, why not follow the science this year and give Birdfair a miss?
That’s not a rhetorical question either…
?🤷♂️
That’s not a rhetorical question either…
?🤷♂️
2/3 With its emphasis on high carbon wildlife tourism, today’s Birdfair has a different focus from earlier years. BTO work has highlighted the impacts of climate change on birds, and because of our commitment to working sustainably, we no longer feel it is appropriate to take a stand at the event.
March 20, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Birders, why not follow the science this year and give Birdfair a miss?
That’s not a rhetorical question either…
?🤷♂️
That’s not a rhetorical question either…
?🤷♂️
2/3 With its emphasis on high carbon wildlife tourism, today’s Birdfair has a different focus from earlier years. BTO work has highlighted the impacts of climate change on birds, and because of our commitment to working sustainably, we no longer feel it is appropriate to take a stand at the event.
March 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
2/3 With its emphasis on high carbon wildlife tourism, today’s Birdfair has a different focus from earlier years. BTO work has highlighted the impacts of climate change on birds, and because of our commitment to working sustainably, we no longer feel it is appropriate to take a stand at the event.
2/3 With its emphasis on high carbon wildlife tourism, today’s Birdfair has a different focus from earlier years. BTO work has highlighted the impacts of climate change on birds, and because of our commitment to working sustainably, we no longer feel it is appropriate to take a stand at the event.
July 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM
2/3 With its emphasis on high carbon wildlife tourism, today’s Birdfair has a different focus from earlier years. BTO work has highlighted the impacts of climate change on birds, and because of our commitment to working sustainably, we no longer feel it is appropriate to take a stand at the event.
July 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Birdfair - a reputational risk
#climatechange #globalbirdfair #birdfair #lowcarbonbirding
lowcarbonbirding.net/2025/02/05/b...
#climatechange #globalbirdfair #birdfair #lowcarbonbirding
lowcarbonbirding.net/2025/02/05/b...
Birdfair: a reputational risk
By JAVIER CALETRIO Mark Avery (Birdwatch, September 2024) argues that, with its overwhelming emphasis on ‘carbon guzzling trips abroad’, Birdfair looks more like a trade fair than a birding festiva…
lowcarbonbirding.net
July 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Birdfair - a reputational risk
#climatechange #globalbirdfair #birdfair #lowcarbonbirding
lowcarbonbirding.net/2025/02/05/b...
#climatechange #globalbirdfair #birdfair #lowcarbonbirding
lowcarbonbirding.net/2025/02/05/b...
Birdfair episode now live!
Our JA Baker/Peregrine special podcast episode live at Birdfair with the brilliant @drmjwarren.bsky.social is out now!
goldengrenades.com/podcast/epis...
goldengrenades.com/podcast/epis...
Episode 43: JA Baker and ‘The Peregrine’ with Michael J Warren - Live from Global Birdfair
For this very special episode Kit and Will are joined by writer, naturalist and medievalist, Michael J Warren live from Global Birdfair to celebrate JA Baker and his seminal nature writing book…
goldengrenades.com
August 6, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Birdfair episode now live!
Looking forward to my 32nd year! exhibiting at ‘Birdfair’ Rutland. I’ll be displaying originals and prints in Puffin marquee - stand 14 @globalbirdfair.bsky.social 11, 12 & 13July
July 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Looking forward to my 32nd year! exhibiting at ‘Birdfair’ Rutland. I’ll be displaying originals and prints in Puffin marquee - stand 14 @globalbirdfair.bsky.social 11, 12 & 13July
A huge boost for some of Africa’s rarest birds! 🐦🌿
US $150,000 raised by the Global Birdfair will help protect many Critically Endangered birds found only in São Tomé.
Thank you to everyone who made it possible. 💚
🔗 www.birdlife.org/news/2026/09...
US $150,000 raised by the Global Birdfair will help protect many Critically Endangered birds found only in São Tomé.
Thank you to everyone who made it possible. 💚
🔗 www.birdlife.org/news/2026/09...
Global Birdfair funding gives new hope to São Tomé and Príncipe’s rarest birds
A US$150,000 donation from Global Birdfair will help protect three Critically Endangered birds found nowhere else on Earth, bringing together science and local knowledge to prevent their extinction.
www.birdlife.org
September 9, 2026 at 4:34 PM
A huge boost for some of Africa’s rarest birds! 🐦🌿
US $150,000 raised by the Global Birdfair will help protect many Critically Endangered birds found only in São Tomé.
Thank you to everyone who made it possible. 💚
🔗 www.birdlife.org/news/2026/09...
US $150,000 raised by the Global Birdfair will help protect many Critically Endangered birds found only in São Tomé.
Thank you to everyone who made it possible. 💚
🔗 www.birdlife.org/news/2026/09...
'Birdfair remains stagnated in a vision of the world that may have made sense in 1989. But the longer it denies the need to change the more it will struggle to dispel the growing perception that today it has become a reputational risk.'
#lowcarbonbirding
lowcarbonbirding.net/2025/02/05/b...
#lowcarbonbirding
lowcarbonbirding.net/2025/02/05/b...
Birdfair: a reputational risk
By JAVIER CALETRIO Mark Avery (Birdwatch, September 2024) argues that, with its overwhelming emphasis on ‘carbon guzzling trips abroad’, Birdfair looks more like a trade fair than a birding festiva…
lowcarbonbirding.net
February 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
'Birdfair remains stagnated in a vision of the world that may have made sense in 1989. But the longer it denies the need to change the more it will struggle to dispel the growing perception that today it has become a reputational risk.'
#lowcarbonbirding
lowcarbonbirding.net/2025/02/05/b...
#lowcarbonbirding
lowcarbonbirding.net/2025/02/05/b...
I address here two further arguments made by Stephen Moss regarding the funding generated by Birdfair for conservation projects & the importance of the event as a meeting place for the conservation movement & the birding world.
#GlobalBirdfair #lowcarbonbirding
lowcarbonbirding.net/2025/02/13/f...
#GlobalBirdfair #lowcarbonbirding
lowcarbonbirding.net/2025/02/13/f...
Further reflections on Birdfair
In an article I posted last week I questioned one of the arguments in support of Birdfair highlighted by Stephen Moss in his response to Mark Avery’s article (Birdwatch September 2024). I address h…
lowcarbonbirding.net
February 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I address here two further arguments made by Stephen Moss regarding the funding generated by Birdfair for conservation projects & the importance of the event as a meeting place for the conservation movement & the birding world.
#GlobalBirdfair #lowcarbonbirding
lowcarbonbirding.net/2025/02/13/f...
#GlobalBirdfair #lowcarbonbirding
lowcarbonbirding.net/2025/02/13/f...
Just astonishing that people are still going along and supporting this circus in its current form.
#BirdFair
#BirdFair
Maybe future #birdfair should focus on addressing the climate crisis & the devastation it will bring?
No Antarctic tours, much less consumerism & consumption, more education & campaigning on emissions reduction, more for families, plant-based catering etc?
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
No Antarctic tours, much less consumerism & consumption, more education & campaigning on emissions reduction, more for families, plant-based catering etc?
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
theconversation.com
July 11, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Just astonishing that people are still going along and supporting this circus in its current form.
#BirdFair
#BirdFair