Actions to reduce the threat posed by the destruction of nests and the loss of nesting sites for wild species that inhabit urban environments

MITECO

An advertising spot has been produced that has been seen by more than 16.5 million people on television and has reached almost 72,000 views on social networks.
1,219 people have registered as collaborators of the citizen science program and have registered 852 censuses of 25 species of birds in 38 provinces.
A report has been prepared and disseminated, which has been downloaded by more than a thousand people, which brings together for the first time from a legal point of view the analysis of the European and national regulatory framework for the protection of wild bird species that inhabit the urban environment.
79 queries have been answered on how to act in cases of destruction of nests and 36 actions have been taken, including 23 complaints to the agents of the authority or the competent administrations

Project

Line of action:

Drivers of biodiversity loss

Status:

Finalizado

Execution date:

2020

Background

SEO/BirdLife was a beneficiary in the 2019 Call for Grants with the SOS-Nidos project, which aimed to contribute to the conservation of wild species that inhabit urban environments, mainly those that are threatened or affected by the destruction and disappearance of their nesting sites.

Objectives

Dissemination and communication of the project.
Citizen science program.
Improvement of knowledge and attention to queries.

Actions

Creation of a Communication Plan to capture the main messages, including 2 publications in the magazines Aves y Naturaleza and Aventureros. And a section on the entity’s website about the project:
Carrying out actions on the radio: an advertising spot and radio spot.
Development of an application (App) to inventory breeding sites (colonies or isolated pairs), to which the possibility of recording roosts has been incorporated as an improvement, as frequent places also in urban environments.

Publication and dissemination of the “Report on the protection of wild birds that live in urban environments against the destruction of their nests and the loss of nesting sites”.

Follow-up and reporting of cases of destruction of nests that reach SEO/BirdLife, through a follow-up technician who attends to these queries and advises on how to act in each case. In total, 79 queries have been received and answered, mainly through email.

Results

Through a powerful communication campaign through social networks and general media, it has been possible to expose the problem of the destruction of nests in urban environments. This has been complemented by the creation of an open-access App that facilitates the involvement of citizens in the conservation of urban birds, and the generation of a final legal report that brings together the entire European and state regulatory framework on administrative and criminal offences on the protection of urban wild birds.

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