Northwestern Atlantic Birds at Sea Conservation Cooperative
An independent, multi-disciplinary, international group working in cooperation to understand and address issues faced by birds in their marine environment.
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Not nearly enough is known about Atlantic seabirds and their vulnerability to a number of ongoing and emerging threats while in their primary offshore habitats. Data on their pelagic distribution and abundance are critical for monitoring population trends, understanding their basic ecology and role in marine ecosystems, assessing actual or potential impacts from oil spills, fisheries by-catch, and offshore development (shipping, wind generation, gas and mineral exploration), identifying critical marine habitats, and educating the public about marine conservation issues. The Northwest Atlantic Birds at Sea Conservation Cooperative has formed and is committed to engaging resource agencies and partners in and outside its membership to develop new alliances to prioritize and implement research, management, policy and educational actions needed to sustain marine birds in their offshore environments.
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Vision Statement:
By 2025 marine bird population status, distribution and habitat use patterns in the Northwest Atlantic are well understood and incorporated into marine resource policies and regulations such that bird populations are stable and sustainable into the future.
Structure of the Cooperative
The Northwestern Atlantic Birds at Sea Conservation Cooperative functions through ad-hoc working groups whose chairs form the Cooperative’s Steering Committee. Working groups are issue-specific and form and dissolve as goals are identified and accomplished, respectively. The entire Cooperative meets semi-annually to review marine bird priorities and to set the groundwork for implementing priority actions for the following 2 years.
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Workshops
November 2005
Priority Species, Research and Needs Document
January 2007
Core Area of the Northwestern Atlantic Birds at Sea Conservation Cooperative
Next Steps for the Atlantic Marine Bird Conservation Cooperative (AMBCC)
Seabird Bycatch Proposed Action Items
Topics for Bycatch breakout session
Bycatch Summary from Seabird Plans
Distribution and abundance subgroup discussion table.
Abstract: Marine bird abundance and distribution: role of scale
Oil Spill Damage Assessment Outline

Longtailed Duck. Photo courtesy of Harry Sell
Presentations from 2007 Workshop
Oil Spill Response and Seabird Damage Assesment Presentation

