Risk for migratory birds after Durban according Lipu

27 January

According the Lipu-BirdLife of Italy, the decision adopted at the World Summit in Durban to postpone to 2015 the signing of a new binding agreement on emissions of greenhouse gases (post-Kyoto) could aggravate the scenario of global warming and could provoke damage to biodiversity, particularly wild birds".
In fact, if the scenarios of a global warming of two degrees or even three degrees by the end of the century will be confirmed, this will expose at least 15 Italian species of birds to the risk of extinction, including herons, gulls and prey.
Some encouraging signs come from the recent Conference of the Parties (COP 10) of the Convention on the Conservation of migratory Species (CMS), which has adopted important decisions for the conservation of migratory birds at global level : the development of a plan action on the Africa-Eurasia flyways (migratory routes) and the development of guidelines to minimize the risks of poisoning of birds.
Another important signal is the prestigious assignment to Mr. Fernando Spina, director of research ISPRA, who was appointed President of the Scientific Committee of the Bonn Convention, a decision that gives prestige to the ISPRA and also to the Italian research on birds. It is important to underline the strong commitment of Ispra in the study of the  relationship between climate change and bird life in Italy.