Over 450 leading conservationists from BirdLife national Partner organisations and over 100 countries are meeting at the BirdLife International World Conference to discuss their strategy to halt the trends outlined in the report. In spite of today's disturbing figures there is still time to save nearly all the planet's threatened birds from extinction . BirdLife International Partnership launches BirdLife 2000 . BirdLife 2000 is the strategy that will be implemented by all BirdLife Partner organisations. It is a strategy to conserve the worlds birds and to look at the contribution birds can make to wider environmental matters.
People depend on biodiversity and natural resources.
The sustainable use of these resources is crucial to many people s quality of live. Poverty alleviation and environmental care are strictly connected . BirdLife 2000 places a strong emphasis on the human dimension, recognising that birds and biodiversity conservation will be achieved only through involving people. BirdLife has 66 national Partner organisations and programmes in 105 countries. Queen Noor is participating in the conference for three days, including chairing plenary sessions.