British Birdwatching Fair
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The British Birdwatching Fair or Birdfair is an annual event for birdwatchers, held every August at Rutland Water in England. It is described as the birder’s “Glastonbury”.
A large number of suppliers of binoculars, cameras, books, clothing and other birdwatching equipment, plus artists and tour companies, display and sell their wares, and there are lectures and other attractions.
The first fair was held in 1989. All the organisers' profits are donated to a charity, Birdlife International. Prior to the 2008 Fair, visitors had contributed £1,488,000[1] to international bird conservation.
[edit] Themes
Each year the Birdfair has a different fundraising theme; a list of these as follows:
- 1992: IPCB Spanish Steppes Appeal
- 1993: Polish Wetlands Project
- 1994: Project Halmahera
- 1995: Morocan Wetlands Project
- 1996: Ke Go Forest Project, Vietnam
- 1997: Mindo Important Bird Area Project, Ecuador
- 1998: Globally Threatened Species Programme
- 1999: Rescuing Brazil's Atlantic Forests
- 2000: Save the Albatross Campaign
- 2001: Eastern Cuba: Saving a unique Caribbean Wilderness
- 2002: Saving Sumatra's Last Lowland Rainforests
- 2003: Saving Madagascar's Fragile Wetlands
- 2004: Northern Peru's Dry forests
- 2005: Burma's Gurney's Pittas
- 2006: Saving the Pacific's Parrots
- 2007: Preventing Extinctions
