Atlantic Coast Joint Venture Winter News 2010
Partners working together for the conservation of native bird species in the Atlantic Flyway region of the United States.
Seven Coastal Wetlands Grants Awarded in the Atlantic Coast Joint Venture The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in December 2009, awarded more than $3.6 million in National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grants to seven projects in six states in the Atlantic Flyway: Florida, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia. State resource agencies and other project partners contributed over $2.2 million in matching funds for the federal grants, to conserve, restore, and protect 940 acres of coastal wetlands. View the grants. |
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Three Additional North American Wetland The North American Wetlands Conservation Council, in December 2009, recommended funding three additional ACJV project in three states. Projects in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina will receive $3 million in grant funds to be matched by nearly $22 million in partner funds. Over 12,200 acres will be protected, restored, or enhanced. These projects along with the nine projects approved in September, 2009 would result in the conservation of over 65,000 acres of significant wetland, riverine and upland habitat for priority migratory birds. View the grants. |
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Joint Venture Board Meets to Review Conservation Science and LCCs The Atlantic Coast Joint Venture Management Board met in Baltimore, Maryland on December 3-4, 2009 to review ongoing conservation science in the joint venture and to discuss the role of the joint venture with emerging Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. The agenda, draft minutes and most of the presentations are posted on the joint venture website. More... |
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Impacts and Conservation Strategies Related to Climate Change in the ACJV: Assessing Landscape Change in the South Atlantic This is the third in a series of newsletter articles that discuss the likely impacts of climate change on habitats and birds in the Atlantic Coast Joint Venture area and the role of the joint venture in planning for and addressing those impacts.This article focuses on the assessment of change in landscapes due to climate change and other factors in the South Atlantic Coastal Plain.More... |
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Northwest Atlantic Marine Bird Conservation Cooperative Updates The Northwest Atlantic Marine Bird Conservation Cooperative held its annual meeting January 27-29 in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The Cooperative formed in 2005 representing state, federal, ngo's, and universities and meets semi- annually. The group formed to engage resource agencies and partners to develop new alliances to prioritize and implement research, management, conservation, and educational actions to sustain and improve marine birds in the offshore environments. More... |
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Partnership Focus: Montezuma Wetlands Complex The Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) is one of the Atlantic Flyway’s premier avian focus areas, a vast (50,000 acre/20,000 ha) mosaic of marshes, swamps, and floodplain forests lying in an alluvial plain between Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes, in west-central New York. Montezuma provides critical resting, feeding, and staging habitat for more than one million waterfowl and countless shorebirds and songbirds every year. Flocks of Canada and Snow Goose can exceed 100,000 birds of each species, during migration. More... |
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Great Lakes Restoration Initiative: Joint Venture Habitat Restoration and Protection Request for Proposals Beginning in the current Fiscal Year (2010), the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is a federal effort to target the most significant environmental problems in the Great Lakes ecosystem and fund and implement projects that address these problems. The Atlantic Coast Joint Venture and the Upper Mississippi & Great Lakes Region Joint Venture are working with the Wildlife & Sport Fish Restoration programs in the Midwest and Northeast Regions of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to competitively fund high-priority projects that provide long-term restoration, enhancement, or protection of migratory bird habitat. More.. |
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Grants and Deadlines North American Wetlands Conservation Act North American Wetlands Conservation Act Small Grants Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program National Fish and Wildlife Foundation |
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