Short Name
BirdLife
Address Line 1
Room 211 - 212
Address Line 2
D1 building, Van Phuc Diplomatic Compound
Street - Number and Name
298 Kim Ma street,
District
City
Hanoi
Province – Vietnam
Phone
+84-4-3514 8903 / 04
Fax
+84-4-3514 8921
Email Address
Contact Person – Vietnam
Pham Tuan Anh, Vietnam Programme Manager
Vietnam Website
International Website
International Headquarters
Mission Statement
Birds are beautiful, inspirational and international. Birds are excellent flagships and vital environmental indicators. By focusing on birds, and the sites and habitats on which they depend, the BirdLife Partnership is working to improve the quality of life for birds, for other wildlife (biodiversity), and for people. BirdLife's aims are to: prevent the extinction of any bird species maintain and where possible improve the conservation status of all bird species conserve and where appropriate improve and enlarge sites and habitats important for birds help, through birds, to conserve biodiversity and to improve the quality of people's lives integrate bird conservation into sustaining people's livelihoods.
History of operations in Vietnam
BirdLife’s presence in Vietnam dates back to early 1990s, in the then undeveloped civil society. Over the past 20 years, BirdLife Vietnam Programme has been recognized as a major contributor to biodiversity conservation in Vietnam with tangible conservation outputs: • Conservation prioritization (IBAs, PA system planning); • Discoveries of 4 new bird species; rediscoveries of 8; • Catalyzing the establishment of 6 PAs; • Publication of authoritative materials on the avifauna of Vietnam (Birds of Vietnam, ~40 technical reports, etc.)