With so much gloom in the world at present, here are a couple of good news stories that may lighten the mood for readers…

More news about the Hayling Island Ringed Plover project, which Birds on the Brink helped fund.

The events that are unfolding in Ukraine are a human tragedy. However, collateral environmental consequences will also result and this article attempts to throw some light on interlinked history and natural history dating back to the Soviet era.

Read an update from Tim Norriss of the Hampshire Swift group about their Winchester Cathedral project, which Birds on the Brink helped fund

Read an update from the Totley Swift Group about their work

Earlier in the year Birds on the Brink joined forces with the Norfolk Wildlife Trust to fund measures aimed at helping nesting Little Terns and breeding waders on the north Norfolk coast. Here’s an update, informed by Beach Warden Theo de Clermont. It details the project’s impact on the avian world, together with news of some welcome collateral conservation floral benefits.

Birds on the Brink has received a donation of £8,263.20 from the international competition Bird Photographer of the Year (BPOTY). This wonderful addition to the charity’s funds will help us fund conservation grants in the months to come.

Birds on the Brink has awarded a grant to the Totley Swift Group in Sheffield for the provision and installation of nest boxes.

Birds on the Brink is pleased to help fund measures to protect nesting Little Terns on the north Norfolk coast.

Birds on the Brink is supporting continuing efforts to conserve the Bearded Screech-owl in Guatemala.

Birds on the Brink is pleased to announce it has awarded a grant for a project aimed at reversing the declining fortunes of coastal-nesting Ringed Plovers.

Unique among European raptors, the Honey-buzzard feeds on the larvae of bees and wasps. Sadly, it is slaughtered as it migrates through the Mediterranean, shot illegally by a hardened minority who get a perverse form of pleasure from killing things.

Like others of its kind, Egyptian Vultures are threatened and declining globally. Find out what’s being done to help them in Turkey, thanks to a co-funding partnership between Birds on the Brink and the Ornithological Society of the Middle East.