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Let's Make It a Human Right to Live on a Healthy Planet to live on a healthy planet. healthy a on live to JULY-SEPTEMBER 2020 JULY-SEPTEMBER Let’s make it a human right human a it make Let’s OUR MOST AMBITIOUS CAMPAIGN EVER OUR MOST AMBITIOUS CAMPAIGN – HOW IT WILL CHANGE LIVES, AND HOW IT CAN BECOME A REALITY REVEALED: BIRDLIFE THE MAGAZINE JUL-SEP 2020 Together we are BirdLife International Partnership for nature and people Argentina Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Belarus Belgium Belgium Belize Bhutan Bolivia Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Canada Canada Chile China Chinese Colombia Cook Islands Côte d’Ivoire (Hong Kong) Taiwan Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Denmark Dominican Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands Republic Republic (Malvinas) Faroe Fiji Finland France French Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland Islands Polynesia India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kuwait Latvia Lebanon Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Malta Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Montenegro Morocco Myanmar Nepal Netherlands New New Nigeria Caledonia Zealand Norway North Palau Palestine Panama Paraguay Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Saudi Arabia Serbia Macedonia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Romania Syria Thailand Tunisia Turkey Uganda Ukraine United Uruguay Uzebekistan USA USA Zambia Zimbabwe Kingdom www.birdlife.org BirdLife International is the world’s largest nature conservation partnership. Through our unique local-to-global approach, we deliver high impact and long term conservation for the benefit of nature and people EDITORIAL P.28 HOW ARE WE TACKLING THE THREAT OF ILLEGAL BIRD TRADE IN ASIA? Photo © Tim Plowden/ www.timplowden.co.uk Tim Plowden/ © Photo ONE PLANET. ONE RIGHT. ONE VISION There’s still very much an ‘us and them’ attitude when it comes to humans and nature. For many, nature has a sense of ‘otherness’ – something they can go and enjoy in a park, or a garden, but ultimately something very detached from their actual lives. But ultimately, we are animals, so we are nature too, and our collective negligence of our planet’s health is proving fatal not just to what we consider the ‘natural world’, but to us, too. Millions of humans die every year as a result of environmental harm. Not in the future, not in 2030, but in the here and now. Reconnecting that link in people’s hearts and minds is one of the long-term goals of our One Planet, One Right campaign. Our coverage begins on page 10. But our commitment to advancing the conversation goes beyond the pages of this magazine. Our ongoing Green Recovery Webinar series plays to BirdLife’s strength as a convener, bringing together thought leaders across governments, business and youth movements for a series of daring discussions on the future of our planet. Why not head to youtube.com/user/BirdLifeVideo to catch up on what you’ve missed? Alex Dale, Editor CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE DAVID BOYD PHILIPPE SANDS YANN ROUXEL Our campaign has already garnered considerable Our One Planet campaign has had valuable input Changing gears, we once again turn our attention support, not least from Dr David Boyd – the UN’s and support from Professor Philippe Sands, a to BirdLife’s Marine team, who routinely deliver Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the prominent international human rights barrister. innovative and resourceful solutions to the issues Environment. 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