Each year, billions of birds trace ancient routes across continents, stitching ecosystems together in ways human civilization has long taken for granted. At the Global Flyways Summit in Nairobi, a sobering reckoning arrived: nearly half of all migratory bird species are in decline, and one in nine now faces extinction — losses driven not by mystery but by the accumulated weight of human choices around land, climate, and consumption. The summit gathered governments, conservationists, and financiers not to mourn, but to demonstrate that coordinated, cross-border action has already begun to rever
Nearly half of migratory bird species in decline, global summit warns
Migratory bird population collapse threatens ecosystem services supporting billions of people dependent on wetlands and coastal habitats for food and livelihoods.