Birdlife Partner – The Conservation Society of Sierra Leone (CSSL)

The African-Eurasian Flyway (AEF) is one of the four great global pathways migratory birds use.  Stretching from Greenland and the Arctic to southern Africa, the flyway is used by hundreds of millions of land and waterbirds every year, and the habitats within the flyway also support hundreds of non-migratory bird species, many of which are globally threatened. Various human pressures, including habitat destruction and degradation, illegal hunting and trapping and climate change, severely impact the flyway.

Working at a flyway scale enables this essential ecological connectivity and builds collaboration across borders, raising our collective ambition, problem-solving together, sharing knowledge and leveraging the power of partnership.

Sierra Leone and Liberia lie at the heart of the flyway and are of great importance for forest conservation. The programme will build on the many years of successful work with the Conservation Society of Sierra Leone (CSSL) and the Society for the Conservation of Nature in Liberia (SCNL).