Angry Birds teaming yp with Birdlife.

Angry Birds teaming yp with Birdlife. Image by LG / CC BY 2.0

Angry Birds are getting angrier, because some of their real-life counterparts in the South Pacific are facing extinction.

Rovio, the creator of the hugely popular Angry Birds games, is teaming up with nature conservationist group BirdLife to disseminate information and help collect funds to protect birds in the region that are particularly vulnerable to attacks by non-native predators introduced by humans.

The Finnish company is launching the campaign as it releases the Angry Birds Fight game on 7 May in Asia Pacific, saying it had not realised until now that some of the most critically-endangered bird species have populations lower than the number of staff at Rovio, which totals 700.

(Press Association)