Please donate today to help restore and protect the fragile habitats that are critical to the survival of our marine birds.
Governments, conservation groups, and communities around the world turn to BirdLife Australia for trusted, evidence-based advice. With decades of on-ground experience, our expert ecologists have developed proven strategies for protecting coastal habitats and the birds that depend on them. They know what needs to be done.
We work all over Australia to protect vulnerable habitats for birds, but we urgently need your support.
Now, more than ever, you can help increase our impact and put solutions into action!
can help us to upscale critical monitoring and targeted actions for the species that need it most.
can help train skilled volunteers to restore and protect crucial habitat for native birds.
can help our ecologists to be at the forefront of disaster preparedness initiatives to protect vulnerable populations of birds.
Your donation will support the most urgent actions needed to save threatened Australian birds.
Intense conservation action has brought Gould’s Petrel back from the brink of extinction once before, but sadly they are under threat again. Since 2012, the number of breeding pairs and breeding successes have fluctuated, with a trend of declining numbers.
Threatened shorebirds and seabirds depend on our islands and coastlines. Birds like Eastern Hooded Plovers, Little Terns, and the majestic and mysterious Gould’s Petrels who spend almost their entire lives flying over the sea.
Gould’s Petrel pairs form strong bonds, returning to the same island every year to raise just one chick. They seem to carry a deep memory of home, no matter how far they’ve travelled. They only come to land to breed. And that’s why our islands and coastlines play such a crucial role in their survival.
Climate change, nesting competition, human disturbance, and threats out at sea are thought to be contributing to the Gould’s Petrels’ continuing declines.
We need your help to protect their fragile marine habitats.
These beautiful birds play a crucial role in connecting land and sea, and without them, we could see imbalances in predator-prey dynamics, fewer nutrients delivered to the islands they breed on (which they deposit through guano), and the collapse of intricate ecological relationships that many other species depend on for survival.
Your support today can help to monitor and protect the majestic and mysterious Gould’s Petrel to ensure they can thrive once again.
Our ecologists have the solutions to halt extinctions. Our expert, science-led approach to saving birds and protecting habitat works.
Every season our Beach-nesting Birds team receives over 14,000 records of Hooded Plovers and uses the information collected by dedicated and passionate citizen scientists to improve the way beaches are managed and protected.
Our dedicated network of volunteers are monitoring the breeding activity of threatened beach-nesting birds like the Hooded Plover, Fairy Tern, and Beach Stone-curlew at 897 critical sites across Australia’s coasts.
The Victorian population of Eastern Hooded Plover has jumped from around 500 birds to over 700, and the chances of nests fledging chicks successfully is ten times better when we intervene with our conservation actions!
This is real, measurable impact — and it’s only possible because people like you care enough to stand alongside us.
Our vulnerable and endangered island birds need your help. You can help defend their homes today, please donate now.
for the species that need it most
to restore and protect crucial habitat for native birds
help our ecologists to be at the forefront of disaster preparedness initiatives
