Press Reports
Save Our Songbirds Merger
SOS Merge with SBS
SongBird Survival, an English based wildlife charity, dedicated to helping our native and migrant songbirds survive and flourish has announced that it is merging to form one single charity with Save Our Songbirds based in Scotland. SongBird Survival will continue as the joint name. The merger has been approved by the Charities Commission.
SongBird Survival Chairman, Clive Sherwood, is quoted: “We have almost identical objectives and aspirations as charities. Together we will achieve much more to inform and hopefully persuade government to recognise the plight of too many species of threatened small birds.”
Lord Haddington, who set up Save Our Songbirds 3years ago, feels that birds certainly do not recognise boundaries and are not interested in devolution. What they are interested in is a safe and food rich environment. Our two charities are dedicated to help them throughout the UK with our larger collective membership.”
Lord Haddington and one other Trustee of Save Our Songbirds are joining the SongBird Survival Board of Trustees. Members of the joint charity represent every walk of life – town dwellers, gardeners, farmers, landowners and dedicated bird watchers.
In 2006 SongBird Survival published an important survey showing predation pressures on farmland birds by mammals including grey squirrels.
The combined charity is determined to continue funding independent research into the impact of predation on diminishing songbird populations and is working with respected organisations to find solutions based on scientific evidence. They also help to fund the installation of nest boxes on new homes in cooperation with Persimmon Homes, the UK’s largest house builder.
SongBird Survival is not anti-raptor but in favour of pro-active management of habitats and carefully targeted predator control where it is clearly shown that certain species need a helping hand to survive and flourish in our intensively farmed, urban and garden environments.
To find out more about Save Our Songbirds please visit their site here.
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Date Added: February 15th 2007