Partners
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To protect, maintain, and improve the fish, game, and aquatic plant resources of the state, and manage their use and development in the best interest of the economy and the well-being of the people of the state, consistent with the sustained yield principle.
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The mission of Audubon Alaska is to conserve Alaska's natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife and their habitats, for the benefit and enjoyment of current and future generations.
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Realizar estudios especializados e interdisciplinarios principalmente en Cuba, que contribuyan a definir y caracterizar las áreas de mayor interés e importancia para la biodiversidad, así como establecer las vías y métodos para su conservación, aprovechamiento racional, mejoramiento ecológico y desarrollo cultural, económico y social sostenible.
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Bird Conservation Network (BCN) is a coalition organization whose current members are 19 bird clubs, Audubon groups, ornithological societies and other conservation organizations located primarily in the Chicago metropolitan area. The members of our member groups aggregate in excess of 40,000 people. BCN's mission is the conservation of birds and the habitats they need to survive. There is no full time staff; BCN's board is made up of volunteer representatives from the member groups who carry out the needed work.
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Bird Studies Canada is recognized nation-wide as a leading and respected not-for-profit conservation organization dedicated to advancing the understanding, appreciation and conservation of wild birds and their habitats, in Canada and elsewhere, through studies that engage the skills, enthusiasm and support of its members, volunteers, staff and the interested public.
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Audubon California was formed in 1997 as the National Audubon Society’s California Field Office. This was part of a national effort to provide a stronger link between Audubon’s national and local conservation activities. Establishing state field offices has helped decentralize operations and strengthen relations between Audubon chapters and the National Audubon Society. Audubon California is responsible for setting its strategic course, raising its own funds and accomplishing our mission within California. We have a California board of directors that, while serving in an advisory capacity, helps guide and support Audubon California. Audubon California focuses on three key strategies to accomplish our work: direct conservation, policy & advocacy, and education & outreach.
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The CalPIF mission is to promote the conservation of resident and migratory landbirds and their habitats in California through research, monitoring, education, and collaboration among public and private landowners and managers, government agencies, non-government organizations, and individuals and other bird conservation efforts. The California chapter of Partners in Flight (CalPIF) was established in 1992. The CalPIF structure consists of a Chair, Co-chair, Coordinator, Executive Steering Committee, and Working Committees. Recognizing that the major cause of population declines in California was the loss and degradation of habitat, the first action of CalPIF was to identify habitats important to birds. Following the guidelines of the International Partners in Flight "Flight Plan," habitat-based Bird Conservation Plans (BCPs) have been prepared to facilitate that goal by stimulating a proactive approach to landbird conservation.
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Conabio is an Inter-Ministerial Commission mainly dedicated to: conform and keep updated the National System of Biodiversity Information (SNIB); support projects and studies focused on the knowledge and sustainable use of biodiversity; advise governmental institutions and other sectors; undertake special projects; share the knowledge of biological diversity; follow up of international agreements related to biodiversity, and provide services to the public.
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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a nonprofit membership institution whose mission is to interpret and conserve the earth's biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds. Our programs work with citizen scientists, government and nongovernment agencies across North America and beyond. We believe that bird enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels can and do make a difference. We invite you to learn more about our areas of study.
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Ducks Unlimited conserves, restores and manages wetlands and associated habitats for North America's waterfowl. These habitats also benefit other wildlife and people.
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FERMATA promotes the considered use of nature, culture, and history to move people to places, masses to messages, and markets to merchandise.
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The Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico is a private non-profit institution and its mission is to protect and enhance the resources and natural beauty of Puerto Rico. The Trust acquires and receives as donations natural areas and the constitution of conservation areas in private lands, among other mechanisms. As a part of its mission, the Trust develops education programs aimed at promoting actions that will lead to the protection and conservation of natural areas. The Trust also has a husbandry program to propagate and distribute native tree species of Puerto Rico to preserve the island's biodiversity.
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The Golden-winged Warbler Working Group is comprised of over 80 United States, Canadian, and Latin American ornithologists, conservationists, and managers from academia, federal and state agencies, international non-governmental organizations, and industry. The Working Group met for three days in August 2005 in Siren, Wisconsin, to develop priorities for research and strategies for outreach, education, and conservation action for the species.
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The Gulf Coast Bird Observatory is an independent non-profit organization with 501(c) status. We have become recognized as an innovative organization, which has designed and conducted a significant number of large conservation projects, including migration studies, habitat enhancement, land acquisition, regional habitat mapping, and others. Our mission is the study and conservation of birds and their habitat in and around the Gulf of Mexico. Our purpose is to be a catalyst for bird conservation through individual and community partnerships and the sharing of expertise and knowledge. We value stewardship of birds and their ecosystems, partnerships with all, and sharing of expertise and knowledge.
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La Société Audubon Haïti (SAH) est une fondation à but non lucratif établie depuis juillet 2003, à l'initiative d'un groupe de professionnels préoccupés par la dégradation des écosystèmes du pays et déterminés à contribuer à leur sauvegarde et à leur réhabilitation. La Fondation est ouverte aux jeunes comme aux adultes et compte déjà parmi ses membres des écologistes, des éducateurs, des chercheurs, des représentants du monde des affaires, des membres d'associations locales, d'institutions haïtiennes et étrangères, tous désireux de s'associer à cet effort de conservation de la biodiversité de l'île d'Haïti. La Société Audubon Haïti tient son nom de Jean-Jacques Fougère Audubon, ornithologue américain né dans la ville des Cayes (sud de la République d'Haïti) en 1785 et célèbre pour ses études sur le vif et les planches d'oiseaux réalisées au cours de campagnes d'exploration en Amérique du Nord.
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The Hawk Migration Association of North America was founded in 1974 as a not-for-profit all-volunteer organization. Its purpose is to advance the knowledge of raptor migration across continents; to help establish rational basis for future monitoring of raptor populations; and to provide, through the use of standard reporting forms and procedures, a data bank on migrations for the use of professional and amateur ornithologists.
Its mission is to advance scientific knowledge and promote conservation of raptor populations through study, enjoyment, and appreciation of raptor migration.
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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grant making institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. Through the support it provides, the Foundation fosters the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, strengthens institutions, helps improve public policy, and provides information to the public, primarily through support for public interest media.
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Klamath Bird Observatory (KBO) advances bird and habitat conservation in the Americas through science, education, and partnerships. KBO conducts scientific studies to monitor and inventory populations, contributing towards the Partners In Flight International Bird Conservation Program's efforts to keep common birds common. Working in the Klamath-Siskiyou Bioregion of southern Oregon and northern California, and beyond, we provide information to help federal, state, and local land managers better protect and enhance bird populations and their habitats.
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Klamath Bird Observatory and USDA Forest Service Redwood Sciences Laboratory
work with many partners to establish and promote standardized bird
monitoring networks that provide information needed to integrate Partners in
Flight bird conservation objectives with land management programs. These
efforts have received national recognition. Our partnership received
the Joint Fire Sciences Program's Best Scientist Manager Partnership Award
for our continued research on the use of birds as indicators of the
ecological effects of disturbance. We received the Duck Unlimited/US Forest Service
Taking Wing Award for increasing understanding of wetland ecosystems and
habitat relationships through excellence in science and management
applications. CJ Ralph and John Alexander, the Data Center's principal investigators, have both received the Partners in Flight Leadership Award for their outstanding contributions to bird conservation.
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Our goal is to facilitate a better understanding of Louisiana birdlife through the gathering and dissemination of information on the distribution and ecology of Louisiana birds. We invite you to join us in our efforts. There are many ways to get involved: browse the website and learn about Louisiana birds and projects, report a nesting observation in the Nest Record Project, be a part of a quad squad, submit a noteworthy bird observation on a digital 3x5 card, or participate in the Important Bird Areas designation process. However you choose to participate, we thank you for your efforts. We believe that a better understanding and appreciation of our natural heritage will pay significant rewards both personally and collectively.
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Mass Audubon works to protect the nature of Massachusetts for people and wildlife. Together with more than 100,000 members, we care for 32,000 acres of conservation land, provide educational programs for 200,000 children and adults annually, and advocate for sound environmental policies at local, state, and federal levels. Mass Audubon's mission and actions have expanded since our beginning in 1896 when our founders set out to stop the slaughter of birds for use on women's fashions. Today we are the largest conservation organization in New England. Our statewide network of 44 wildlife sanctuaries welcomes visitors of all ages and serves as the base for our conservation, education, and advocacy work.
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Audubon is dedicated to protecting birds and other wildlife and the habitat that supports them. Our growing network of community-based Audubon Centers, grass roots science programs for bird enthusiasts, and advocacy on behalf of ecosystems sustaining important bird populations, engage millions of people of all ages and backgrounds in positive conservation experiences.
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The National Aviary inspires a respect for nature through the appreciation of birds.
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Audubon New York is dedicated to the protection of birds, other wildlife and their habitats through advocacy and education, serving as the state program of the National Audubon Society. Through a state Board of Directors and Council, 30 chapters, 50,000 members, a Nature Center network and sanctuary system, Audubon New York is providing conservation leadership based on sound science.
Audubon New York is dedicated to:
* the protection of birds, other wildlife and their habitats
* providing conservation leadership based on sound science
* finding solutions to environmental challenges in order to enhance the enjoyment of nature and improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers
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NYSOA is New York State's ornithological society. The objectives of NYSOA are to document the ornithology of New York State; to foster interest in and appreciation of birds; and to protect birds and their habitats.
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The U.S. North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI) Committee is a forum of government agencies, private organizations, and bird initiatives helping partners across the continent meet their common bird conservation objectives. Its strategy is to foster coordination and collaboration among the bird conservation community on key issues of concern. Through annual workplans, the Committee focuses its efforts on advancing coordinated bird monitoring, conservation design, private land conservation, trinational projects, and institutional support in state and federal agencies for integrated bird conservation.
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Founded as Point Reyes Bird Observatory in 1965, our award-winning bird ecology research, management tools and field training programs are advancing biodiversity conservation on land and at sea. Birds are excellent indicators of environmental health. Relatively inexpensive to monitor and widely distributed, birds serve as ideal proxies for the ecosystems they inhabit.
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RMBO was founded in 1988 to address a bird conservation and related public education need in the western United States. Our mission is to conserve birds of the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, and Intermountain West and the habitats on which they depend through research, monitoring, education, and outreach. We accomplish our mission through numerous research and public education programs which have dual goals: to conserve birds and bird habitat, and to increase people's understanding of birds--how they interact with humans, what habitats they use, and what factors threaten their survival.
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The Sociedad Ornitológica Puertorriqueña is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study, conservation, and appreciation of birds in Puerto Rico. Established in 1995 it is widely respected as an objective, independent resource in matters related to the Puerto Rican avifauna. Our Board of Directors and members include ornithologists, university professors, and volunteers who are dedicated to promote the conservation and monitoring of important bird areas in Puerto Rico.
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Our mision is: "To conserve Hispaniolan birds and their habitats through research, community education, and professional training." Established in 2001 and incorporated by presidential decree #85504, the Hispaniolan Ornithological Society (SOH) was founded by a group of enthusiastic volunteers committed with the conservation of birds and their natural environments. It is the only Dominican institution whose members are fully trained and capable of conducting research on the local avifauna. For years we have collaborated and assisted in several research and bird monitoring projects, most of them conducted by American ornithologists.
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The Board of Regents of The University of Montana approved the establishment of the Avian Science Center in the spring of 2004. Our mission is to promote ecological awareness and informed decision making through the collection, synthesis, and dissemination of science-based information on western birds. We work in collaboration with numerous partners both within the University and around the region.
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During the 1960s, Chandler Robbins and his associates at the Migratory Bird Population Station (now the PAtuxent Wildlife Research Center) in Laurel, Maryland developed the concept of a continental monitoring program for all breeding birds. The roadside survey methodology was field tested during 1965, and the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) was formally launched in 1966 when approximately 600 surveys were conducted in the U.S. and Canada east of the Mississippi River. The survey spread to the Great Plains states and prairie provinces in 1967. By 1968, approximately 2000 routes were established across southern Canada and the contiguous 48 states, with more than 1000 routes surveyed annually.
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The University of the Virgin Islands is a co-ed, publicly-funded land-grant institution located in the United States Virgin Islands, a U.S. territory about 1,100 miles southeast of Miami and 40 miles east of Puerto Rico. UVI was founded as the College of the Virgin Islands in 1962 and its liberal arts curriculum is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. In 1986, it became one of the 117 U.S. historically black colleges and universities. The institution also changed its name in 1986 -- to the University of the Virgin Islands -- to reflect the growth and diversification of its academic curricula, research programs and regional community services. UVI is committed to advancing scholarship, fostering human development and promoting democratic values. Its primary mission is to provide intellectual and educational leaders and leadership -- and to improve the quality of life -- in the territory, Eastern Caribbean region and beyond.
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The Redwood Sciences Laboratory, operated by the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station. Dedicated in 1976, the two-story Laboratory houses research hydrologists, geologists, wildlife and fisheries biologists, plant ecologists, and biometricians, research technicians, and support personnel who are conducting watershed, wildlife, and fisheries research applicable to the Pacific Northwest from Alaska to California. The Laboratory is located on the Preston Forest Research Site, a wooded, 3-acre site on the Humboldt State University campus in Arcata, California. It contains about 15,000 square feet of office and laboratory space, including a library, conference room, and data processing area.
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Ventana Wildlife Society (VWS) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that was founded in 1977 by a group of private citizens to restore endangered species native to Central California. Since its founding, VWS has been ‘Conserving Native Wildlife and Their Habitats’ through four programs: 1) Conservation Ecology, focusing on the research, assessment and monitoring of songbirds and monarch butterflies; 2) Education and Outreach, focusing on environmental education for all ages; 3) Species Recovery, focusing on endangered species recovery, including the California Condor; and, 4) Habitat Restoration, focusing on rebuilding lost habitats. Governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, VWS employs a staff of eight professional biologists and trains up to 20 interns throughout the year.
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Audubon was founded at the start of the last century - one of America's earliest organizations dedicated to conservation of birds, other wildlife and essential habitat. Audubon has had a grassroots presence in Vermont since the founding of "The Audubon Society of Vermont" in 1901, and has grown to over 4,000 members with 8 volunteer chapters throughout the state. Through the active engagement of volunteers at the grassroots level, Audubon Vermont has played an important role in securing key environmental protection in Vermont through environmental education, science and public policy initiatives. In a state that supports many environmental organizations, Audubon Vermont is unique in its multidisciplinary approach with site-based environmental education and a strong grassroots chapter network at its core.
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The Vermont Center For Ecostudies is an independent research group dedicated to the understanding and conservation of wildlife. VCE biologists scale high peaks, paddle remote ponds, slog through wetlands, visit ordinary backyards, and traverse the Americas to study birds, insects, mammals, amphibians and other wildlife. Our findings inform scientists, policy makers, and members of the public about sound conservation goals and practices. Along the way, we involve more than 1,000 amateur “citizen scientists” from five countries to help in our work. That's because VCE believes conservation is as much about people as it is about ecology. And it's why our motto is “Uniting People and Science for Conservation.”
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VINS enters its third decade with notable accomplishments and exciting plans. Follow our tracks to see where we've been, and join us as the future takes flight.
"It all started in 1970 when one of my patients heading the regional planning commission asked me to head up a study of the Ottauquechee River because my office was right on the river," recalls Dr. David Laughlin when asked to describe the beginnings of VINS. Others joined Laughlin in the effort, which led to the first water quality litigation in the state.
This group, a bit bruised from the public struggle to clean up the water, pondered how to do things differently. "At the end of the fight, Sally [David's former wife, Sally Laughlin], Rick Farrar, June McKnight, and I were having dinner at our house on Hartland Hill," David says. "There has to be a better way,' we said, and we came up with the idea of an environmental organization aimed at kids." That organization became the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, better known as VINS.
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The Wisconsin Society for Ornithology was organized in 1939 to encourage the study of Wisconsin birds. The aims have since expanded to emphasize all of the many enjoyable aspects of birding and to support the research and habitat protection necessary to preserve Wisconsin birdlife. WSO strives to alert members and the public to situations and practices that threaten Wisconsin's bird populations. Members in the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology include those who enjoy birds attracted to their homes by feeders and bird houses, those who pursue field study or bird banding as a hobby, and those who engage in ornithology professionally. Membership exceeds 1500 from across the United States and around the world.
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Wisconsin partners will deliver the full spectrum of bird conservation, including both game and nongame birds, by working together in voluntary, cooperative initiatives. We will coordinate bird-based projects to ensure effective management for all birds in Wisconsin. We will assess and manage birds and their habitats using the best available science and using ecological landscapes as the management units. Accordingly, we will work both within and outside of Wisconsin to ensure that bird conservation needs are met, and we will share knowledge widely to further bird-based recreational opportunities in Wisconsin.