Administration: Develop Regional Associations

Draft Tool Matrix

Capacity Building
Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative
Emerging Issues
Wetlands

IV. Administration
a. Develop Regional Associations for Wildlife Agencies to Share Information

The North American Bird Conservation Initiative involves governmental and non-governmental partners in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. A Committee in each country consists of the most prominent existing partners in bird conservation.
A Trinational NABCI Committee meets regularly to deal with issues relevant at that geographic scale. Within each country, the major areas of emphasis for NABCI are in increasing resources, improving the science behind bird conservation, expanding partnerships at various scales, and delivering bird conservation objectives on the ground.
From: American Bird Conservancy, www.abcbirds.org.
Contact: David Pashley, dpashley@abcbirds.org.

BirdLife has experience with building regional and global partnerships (contact Amiro Perez-Leroux, Partner Development Office, amiro@birdlife.org.ec.).
From: Birdlife International, www.birdlife.org.
Contact: Rob Clay, rob@guyra.org.py.

Shorebird Research Group of the Americas (SRGA) aims to coordinate priority research on shorebirds at a hemispheric scale, with initial projects centered on determining limiting factors causing shorebird population declines.
From: Canadian Shorebird Conservation Plan and US Shorebird Conservation Plan
Primary Contact: Garry Donaldson, Shorebird Conservation Biologist, Canadian Wildlife Service, garry.donaldson@ec.gc.ca

Regional associations for wildlife agencies are potentially fundable in part on an ad hoc basis through the CMS Secretariat.
From: Convention on Migratory Species, www.wcmc.org.uk/cms.
Contact: Lyle Glowka, lglowka@cms.unep.de.

Fundación Cethus works with governmental and non-governmental organizations, and shares all this information with national wildlife agencies.
From: Fundación Cethus, http://cethus.tripod.com/.
Contact: Cecilia Gasparrou, cgasparrou@house.com.ar.

PIF has regional partner fish and wildlife agency associations in the U.S.
From: Partners in Flight, www.partnersinflight.org.
Contact: Terry Rich, Terry_rich@fws.gov.

USFS works to form alliances and forums of wildlife agencies and partners to advance conservation. USFS is active in the North American Bird Conservation Initiative and in bird conservation joint ventures, and participates actively in international forums- (RAMSAR, Neotropical Bird Conservation). USFS also formed the Copper River International Migratory Bird Conservation Initiative.
From: United States Forest Service, www.fs.fed.us.
Contact Jack Capp, International Programs, T: 202-273-4725.

The book United States Shorebird Conservation Plan is a collaborative project carried out by partners across the United States. The Plan lays out the conservation status of shorebirds and suggests national and regional shorebird conservation strategies, including a plan for implementation. The Plan provides shorebird planning regions and has a number of appendices with population estimates and population targets and gives national shorebird prioritization scores.
From: Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, http://www.manomet.org/WHSRN/.
Contact: Heidi Luquer, Luquer@vermontel.net.

Last updated: November 20, 2008