In 2018, Environment for the Americas (EFTA) will join the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) and the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) to create a single, global bird conservation education campaign, known as World Migratory Bird … Continued
The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission recently approved $33.2 million in funding for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners to purchase, lease, or otherwise conserve more than 81,000 acres of wetland and associated upland habitats for waterfowl, shorebirds, … Continued
NOAA recently announced $8.9 million in funding for three Great Lakes habitat restoration partnerships. Funding for these partnerships is provided by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which was launched in 2010 to accelerate efforts to protect and restore the Great … Continued
Migratory birds throughout the Western Hemisphere will benefit from $4 million in grants for 32 collaborative conservation projects across the Americas, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act grants will leverage the … Continued
In March, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) reported that staff and volunteers collected the carcasses of approximately 2,000 migrating snow geese that appeared to have succumbed to avian cholera and died while stopping at Mud Lake and … Continued