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  • Golden-winged Warbler Singing, by Frode Jacobsen.

Partnerships drive success for the Golden-winged Warbler initiative in West Virginia

To help the bird conservation community speak with a unified voice about common needs and themes, NABCI assembled the National Bird Conservation Priorities, which highlight 10 Priority Actions organized across 5 conservation themes. NABCI’s All-Bird Bulletin Blog will highlight projects and programs that work to achieve one or more of these Priority Actions. Today’s blog [...]

  • Wetland with shorebirds

Dynamic Conservation: Unconventional Ways to Help Birds

When I first began working on water and habitat issues in California a decade ago, it seemed counter-intuitive to me to seek partnerships with farmers and hunters, as I naively assumed we wouldn’t share values and priorities. Fortunately, I had some veteran California conservationists as mentors, and they taught me just how aligned our purposes [...]

By |2018-07-16T20:47:33+00:00May 16th, 2018|Tags: , , , , |
  • Partners doing a pump test.

What’s Good for Rice is Good for Ducks

Without winter flooded ricelands, we will be unable to meet the goals of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan. For Ducks Unlimited, it’s that simple and that important. Ricelands provide habitat for millions of migratory birds across the country. From California to the Gulf Coast and the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, ricelands overlap perfectly with [...]

By |2018-07-13T03:11:31+00:00February 27th, 2018|Tags: , , , , |

Farm Bill Works for Landowners and Birds, New Report Finds

State of the Birds 2017 Identifies Benefits for Agriculture, Forestry, and Conservation (Washington, D.C., August 3, 2017) Thirty-seven million. That’s the increase in the number of waterfowl in the Prairie Pothole Region over the past quarter-century, thanks to the Farm Bill. The State of the Birds 2017 report, released today by the North American Bird [...]

By |2018-07-13T03:11:31+00:00August 3rd, 2017|Tags: , , |

Research Calls for Enhancing Long-term Benefits of Farm Bill Programs

Many farmers, ranchers, and landowners rely on voluntary conservation incentive programs within the Farm Bill to make improvements to their land and operations that benefit them, the environment, and society. According to a recent study by researchers from Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment and Point Blue Conservation Science published in the scientific [...]

By |2017-07-28T13:06:54+00:00July 28th, 2017|Tags: , |
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