Nairobi Flyways & World’s Birds
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What is the Nairobi Global Flyways Declaration and why was it created?
Nile Hatch, sitting in front of me. Nile, you want to talk to me about the Flyways Declaration. Can you explain,
please? Yes, so there's a a landmark declaration uh that was uh signed and concluded earlier this month uh in Nairobi. It's the Nairobi Global Declaration on Flyways and it's an initiative of BirdLife International. So their global partnership meeting was held in Nairobi this year. Bird Watch Ireland CEO, Dr. Andrew Kelly, attended um representing us and BirdLife partners all across the world and they're represented in in over a hundred and twenty countries across the planet. Have signed this joint declaration about calling for the protection of birds, not just where they live at the time, but joining up these flyways. We think of these migratory birds as moving across these routes, almost like motorways in the sky or at sea.
And the only effective way to protect these migratory birds is to make sure that protection occurs all across that flyway. So this is about calling on governments to protect these, joined up thinking, more international cooperation.
How does the Flyways Declaration propose protecting migratory birds across continents?
Birdwatcher is really proud to be one of the government. Okay. How can you protect the flyways? By making sure that all the governments align on this, by making sure that industry and business and fisheries and all of these places protect the habitats where they feed and where they rest and where they breed and where they sleep and where they shelter. So
we're not just talking about the airspace.
Not just the airspace. So we can call them flyways, but that that also involves the ground to a huge extent and the sea. So it's making sure that those protected wetlands, let's say you know, let's let's say you have a bird. You can say the
swallow if you want, because they're going to be eating from here.
So you think of swallow that that let's say breeds in in in Ireland. So any day now they're going to be heading off, as far as we know, they're going to go across to France, where they're going to rely on insects to feed on, they're going to rely on reed beds to sleep in. They often like to sleep in reed beds on migration.
Why are specific habitats like wetlands, reed beds, and mountain passes critical for bird migration?
And then they're going to go and then they're going to go further south, they're going to get to the Pyrenees Mountains. They need to have those mountain passes clear. They need to make sure that there's um you know no hunting going on there to protect them on the way. Again, they need that insect population. They'll go down through Iberia, they'll cross the Mediterranean Sea at the Straits of Gibraltar, they'll go to Africa, they'll go up the Atlas Mountains, then they'll hit the Sahara Desert. Then they're going to keep on going, they'll find themselves going over the Congolese rainforest, they're going to end up in the savannas of places like uh like South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Angola, countries like that, where it can be hard to monitor them, but they're relying on the insects there, they're relying on the protection, then they do the whole journey in reverse.
Now, if you think of thousands of migratory species, own with each with their own. own requirements, like wetland birds that need to stop off and feed in very specific habitats en route. A bird, like a wading bird, may leave Ireland, like a Wimber, let's say, they'll head south, they'll go along the Moroccan coast, they'll end up in Mauritania at the Bank d'Argan, having to feed there on very specific invertebrates in coastal estuaries. And if it's not protected all on the way, you take one piece of that out, the whole species fails. And that's the way we have to think about migratory species, birds being a prime example
What challenges do countries face in implementing the Flyways protection plan?
Also applies to lots of my things like migratory fish, migratory butterflies as well. BirdLi International obviously using the the birds as that sort of flagship to protect those flyaways and it sends a strong message with so many partners, uh over a hundred and twenty around the world signing up for it. Yeah, but
does it have any clout? I'm I'm not being negative now.
It has clout because it represents millions of members of the Okay, so
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the Nairobi Global Flyways Declaration and why was it created?
0:00–0:55
2
How does the Flyways Declaration propose protecting migratory birds across continents?
0:55–1:43
3
Why are specific habitats like wetlands, reed beds, and mountain passes critical for bird migration?
1:43–2:44
4
What challenges do countries face in implementing the Flyways protection plan?
2:44–3:26
5
How is Ireland responding to the Flyways Declaration and what progress has been made?
3:26–3:48
6
What broader impact could the Flyways initiative have on wildlife and human communities?
3:48–4:34