Empowering the grassroots: BirdLife, participation, and local communities

Abstract

The case studies in this book have been selected to show the diversity of ways in which Important Bird Area Local Conservation Groups (LCGs) are working with BirdLife Partners to help conserve what is not just internationally important biodiversity, but also locally important biodiversity. The approaches, like the challenges they address, are locally specific, but all share the common theme of people being empowered to take action for the environment at the places where they live.