WHSRN partners receive grants from NMBCA for shorebird conservation
More than $4.4 million in grant funds were awarded to partners of 37 projects in North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America this fiscal year under the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (NMBCA), administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Division of Bird Habitat Conservation. Of these, 11 projects contain activities designed to directly benefit migratory shorebirds. It’s our pleasure to share the news of the following partners’ successes in this very competitive, partnership-based grants program:
- Colorado Division of Wildlife for "Factors Influencing Rangewide Survival of Mountain Plover Chicks"
- The Nature Conservancy for “Rocky Mountain Front Conservation Easement Project” (benefiting Long-billed Curlew)
- Cornell University’s Laboratory of Ornithology for “The Migratory Connectivity of Hudsonian Godwits”
- Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory for “U.S.-Mexico Grassland Bird Conservation, Phase VI” (benefiting grassland-associated shorebirds)
- Pronatura Noreste, A.C., for “Improving the Ecological Connectivity of the Grassland in Chihuahua, and New Mexico” (benefiting grassland-associated shorebirds), and for “Sister Sites for Piping Plover Conservation and other Shorebirds in Nesting and Wintering Areas of North America”
- BirdLife International for “Strengthening the Alliance: Conservation of Key Sites for Grassland Migrants” (benefiting grassland-associated shorebirds)
- AQUASIS (Associação de Pesquisa e Preservação de Ecosistemas Aquáticos) for “Migratory Shorebird Conservation and Shrimp Farming in Northeast Brazil”
- New Jersey Audubon Society for “Assessing population status, structure and conservation needs for Semipalmated Sandpiper” (in South America)
- Nature Saskatchewan for “Stewards of Saskatchewan: Habitat Conservation for Bird Species at Risk” (benefiting Piping Plovers)
- Aves Uruguay for “Shorebird Use of Rice Fields, Uruguay”
For more detailed information, visit the 2008 Neotropical Grants web site.
