Today 189 bird species are categorised as Critically Endangered. BirdLife’s Species Champion Programme is a major new initiative that aims to save every one.

NHBS was one of the founding Species Champions in 2007 and supports the programme with an annual donation.

The Gratis Books Scheme was set up in 2002 by Prof William Sutherland to provide essential conservation publishing to students and researchers in developing countries. NHBS administers the Gratis Books Scheme, the postage costs for which are funded by the British Ecological Society. To date NHBS has sent more than 4000 books to recipients in over 150 countries.

NHBS is proud to support the African Bird Club as a corporate member. The African Bird Club is a UK registered charity which covers the ornithology of the following geographic region:
Continental Africa
Indian Ocean islands west of 80° East, e.g. Madagascar, Mascarene islands and Socotra
Atlantic Ocean on or east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, e.g. Tristan de Cunha group, Azores and Canaries
About a quarter of the world's bird species, more than 2400, have been recorded in this region, with 332 included on BirdLife International’s Red Data species list for 2005, the most recent summary of the world's threatened and near-threatened species.

NHBS is proud to support OSME as a corporate member. OSME was formed in April 1978 as a successor to the Ornithological Society of Turkey and was expanded in 2001 to cover the Caucasus and central Asia. Its aims are as follows:
To collect, collate and publish ornithological data on birds of the Middle East, the Caucasus and central Asia.
To encourage an interest in and conservation of birds of the Middle East, the Caucasus and central Asia.
To assist environmental and conservation organisations and natural history societies in and concerned with ornithological studies and activities in the Middle East, the Caucasus and central Asia.

NHBS donates slightly damaged and unwanted book stock to the World Land Trust, where they are distributed to conservation projects in developing countries. The World Land Trust is an international conservation charity, based in Halesworth, a rural town in Suffolk, UK. Since its foundation in 1989 as the World Wide Land Conservation Trust, the World Land Trust has been working to preserve the world's most biologically important and threatened lands, and has helped purchase and protect over 350,000 acres of habitats rich in wildlife, in Asia, Central and South America and the UK.