This is a summary of the talks from the different countries at the 2026 AEWA conference in Finland. It comes as no surprise to know that there is still much work to do across Europe to protect the birds but it is only through collaboration that we will succeed. The talks from different European countries
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With The Odyssey prompting so much public discussion, perhaps we can learn something from a story that has endured for almost 3,000 years. It survived because generations of people carried it, retold it and found fresh meaning within it. It became part of their cultural inheritance. What would happen if we thought about our conservation
Before us lay a vast sweep of peatland beneath a heavy Ayrshire sky. It isn’t wilderness in the true sense but an interweaving mosaic of blanket bog, moorland, wet grassland and grazed fields, shaped by the weather, water and human use. At first glance it seemed unassuming, but its purpose quickly became clear, to support wildlife, and especially the breeding waders for which it has become so important. The reserve lies in East Ayrshire, between Cumnock and Muirkirk, where the
Listening for What’s Disappearing: Ogenblik on Sound, Nature, and the Call of the Curlew At Curlew Action, we spend a lot of time thinking about absence, and about the quieting of landscapes that once rang with birdsong, and what it means when a sound slips from everyday life into memory. Few artists explore
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