April 2006 |
This bimonthly newsletter includes news from February
& March. |
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Note from
the Editor
April 1, 2006
Hello Friends,
In this issue
you will find several articles and resources beyond
the scope of migratory birds and wetlands. My hope is
that slightly diverse information will help inspire,
elevate and empower new approaches to our work in conservation.
As you zip through NewsLink, do you find any news that
triggers a creative or innovative way to carry out a
task, project or campaign not yet tried? This to me
is the potential power behind effective information
sharing.
Until June 1st
- I wish each of you well.
Heidi
Heidi
Luquer, Editor
Migratory Bird & Wetlands NewsLink |
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News
from Sponsors
U.S. National Ramsar Committee
(USNRC)
• The USNRC annual meeting will be
held at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Cambridge,
Maryland, on May 22. A tour of the site will begin
at 10:00 a.m., and the business portion of the meeting
will begin at 1:00 p.m.
• The USNRC has adopted its strategic plan for
2006-2007. Click
here
• Royal C. Gardner, USNRC Chair, has been appointed
as the North American representative to the Ramsar
Scientific and Technical Review Panel for the 2006-2008
triennium. The STRP will meet in Gland, Switzerland,
May 30-June 2. Click
here
• On March 22, 2006, in a 187-page opinion,
a U.S. District Court judge ruled that the federal
government improperly granted Clean Water Act permits
for limestone mining in the “Lake Belt”
near Everglades National Park. Sierra Club v. Flowers,
Click
here
• Environmental Concern Inc. 2006 Wetland Training
Schedule Available. Click
here
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News
from Friends
in alphabetical
order... (except
for this 1st bit which warrants attention)
From Katy, Texas, USA - Migratory Birds Threatened
by Airport
Paul Stevens
writes to let us know of an imminent threat faced
by migratory birds in the town of Katy, Texas. The
FAA has granted permission to transform an original
dirt crop duster strip into a major business aviation
airport. He writes, "We are very disturbed with
the fact, that construction of the old Air Rice near
Katy TX, has begun." According to Stevens, the
FAA has vast amounts of material that clearly show
the level of migration from many different bird populations,
including protected species which heavily populate
this area of the Katy Prairie, during the winter months
of each year. If you have any suggestions on how to
help, or would like more details, contact Paul Stevens
at stevens@hmshealthcare.com
News from Audubon
and BirdLife International
Record-Breaking Bird Counts in the USA and
Great Britain
Audubon announced
that from backyards to wildlife refuges, bird watchers
tallied a record-breaking 623 bird species and 7.5
million individual birds during the four-day event
in February, coordinated by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
and National Audubon Society.
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According to BirdLife
International, in the United Kingdom, the Big Garden Birdwatch
results revealed that more than 470,000 people, including
86,000 children, watched their gardens and local parks during
the weekend of 28-29 January. Click
here
North American Bird
Conservation Initiative (NABCI)
Available - March 2006 Issue of the All-Bird Bulletin
Click
here
News from Japan
Appeal for Help from the East Asian Antidae Site Network,
Japan
Mr. Kurechi, Chair
of the East Asian Antidae Site Network has made an appeal
to protect Izunuma and Uchinuma, a Ramsar wetland complex
for many wintering geese in northern Honshu, Japan. According
to Mr. Kurechi, a hot spring lodge is slated for construction
adjacent to this wetland, considered some of the largest waterbird
resting sites. It is estimated that
over 50 tons of hot spring water containing salt water waste
will flow in to the Wetland. Mr. Kurechi states that serious
damage to the habitat of this wetland & surrounding ecology
is anticipated. For a 2-page PDF report click
here.
News from Izzaac Walton
League
Backyard Wetland Conservation Webcast - Wet Spots
into Wonderlands - April 25, 8:00-10:00pm, EST
Learn how to create
vernal pools and backyard bogs that are guaranteed to attract
wildlife and reduce storm-water runoff. Using low-cost materials
and simple techniques, this program will demonstrate how you
can transform your backyard landscape into a "greenscape."
In addition to live programs, other resources are available
on the League's Website. Click
here and then click on Webcasts to register. For more
information, contact Suzanne Zanelli: szanelli@iwla.org
News From Partners in Flight
Making Connections for Bird Conservation: Linking
States, Provinces & Territories to Important Wintering
and Breeding Grounds
In this document maps are used to summarize migratory connections
between individual U.S. states, Canadian provinces & territories,
and the regions that support the same birds at the other end
of migration. Click
here and then click on PIF Technical Series Publications,
and then Publication Number 4.
Ramsar News:
CoP9
Proceedings are available on CD-ROM in English, French and
Spanish. Readers are encouraged to use the Ramsar Website,
but for those who require a CD-ROM (free of charge) contact
Montse Riera at the Secretariat: riera@ramsar.org.
New Ramsar
Sites:
Great
Britain - Lihou Island and L'Erée Headland, Guernsey
Guatemala - National Park Yaxhá-Nakum-Naranjo
Jamaica - Portland Bight Wetlands and Cays
Mexico - 5 new sites: Cascadas de Texolo y su entorno; Estero
de Punta Banda; Isla Rasa; Manglares y humedales de Tuxpan
and Laguna de Atotonilco.
Republic of Korea - Suncheon Bay
Romania - Dumbravita Fishpond Complex; Mures Floodplain
Slovenia - Cerkniško jezero z okolico
For more details click
here.
News from WWF
WWF Yangtze Waterbird Survey Report Available
Recently published,
this bilingual report can be obtained by sending a request
with your name and postal address to Ms. Yang Qin QYang@wwfchina.org.
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Bird & Wetland News
in the news -
from around the globe
most recent
news listed first
U.S.
Says Wetlands Healthier, Fueling Debate
State Managers, Activist Groups Disagree with Bush Administration
31 March 2006
- Associated Press - Washington - More people building
ponds for golf courses and subdivisions or to retain
stormwater and wastewater helped create the nation’s
first net gain in wetlands in a half-century of government
record-keeping. Don Young, Executive Vice President
of Ducks Unlimited, said the report “diminishes
the significance” of the damage to natural wetlands
that is causing “fewer waterfowl, diminished wildlife
in general, less flood protection, less seafood and
lower water quality.” Click
here
World’s
First Environmental Broadband TV Channel ‘Green.tv’
Launches Today
31 March 2006
- United Nations Environment Program - green.tv, the
world’s first broadband TV channel dedicated to
environmental issues goes live today. Click
here
Unprecedented Die-off’ of Caribbean Coral
31 March 2006
- Associated Press - Washington, DC - A one-two punch
of bleaching from record hot water followed by disease
has killed ancient and delicate coral in the biggest
loss of reefs scientists have ever seen in Caribbean
waters. The Caribbean is actually better off than areas
of the Indian and Pacific ocean where mortality rates
— mostly from warming waters — have been
in the 90 percent range in past years, said Tom Goreau
of the Global Coral Reef Alliance. Goreau called what’s
happening worldwide “an underwater holocaust.”
Click
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Secretaries
Norton and Johanns Commend Gains In U.S. Wetlands
30 March 2006 - Secretary
of the Interior Gale Norton today released a U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service report that shows a net gain in America's
nonagricultural and agricultural wetlands for the first time
since the Service began compiling data in 1954. Click
here.
Wetland conservation groups counter these claims. According
to Jeanne Christie, Executive Director of The Association
of State Wetland Managers, "The bad news is that while
the rate of wetland loss has declined, tidal salt marshes
and shrub swamps continue to be lost at significant levels.
Unfortunately, the report's seemingly-good conclusion that
the nation has achieved "no net loss of wetlands"
is misleading. The "no net loss of wetlands" is
largely due to the proliferation of ponds, lakes and other
"deepwater habitats," as the report points out.
These ponds include ornamental lakes for residential developments,
stormwater detention ponds, wastewater treatment lagoons,
aquaculture ponds and golf course water hazards. For the full
press release click
here.
Vietnamese Stamps of Rare Galliformes
29 March 2006 - BirdLife
International - A stamp set depicting Vietnam’s threatened
and endemic partridges and pheasants (Galliformes) will be
launched by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication of
Vietnam on April 1. All five species have small populations
that are declining because of habitat loss and fragmentation
and high levels of hunting. This is the first time BirdLife
and the Ministry have co-operated to publish stamps depicting
Vietnam’s spectacular bird life, and in recognition
of BirdLife’s assistance, each stamp carries the BirdLife
International logo. Click
here
Drought Fears for Wetland Birds (England)
29 March 2006 - BBC News - Low rainfall in south-east England
is leaving the region's wetland birds in a desperate situation,
says the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Species
including lapwing, redshank and snipe are facing their worst
breeding season on record in Kent and Sussex. Click
here.
U.S. Calls for Experts to Restore Wetlands
28 March 2006 - CNN
- Washington DC - The Bush administration is encouraging developers
who destroy wetlands or streams and are required to replace
them to pay other businesses to do the work. Benjamin Grumbles,
the EPA's assistant administrator for water, said he hopes
the number of businesses engaged in "mitigation banking"
will double. Julie Sibbing, a wetlands expert with the National
Wildlife Federation, said the rule is too eager to adopt mitigation
banking as an ideal approach. "It sets it up almost on
a pedestal. It says that if you're going to use a mitigation
bank, it's almost an automatic OK," she said. "This
is a real business-friendly rule, not only for mitigation
bankers but also developers." Click
here
Shallow Water
Seagrass Beds Are Vanishing
28 March 2006 - Environment
News Service - Around the world, seagrass beds are in decline,
says a scientist who has been studying the shallow water ecosystems
for decades. As these underwater meadows disappear, so do
commercially valuable shellfish and fish, waterfowl and other
wildlife, water quality, and erosion prevention. Click
here
Audubon Society
Names America's 10 Most Endangered Birds
27 March 2006 - Environment
News Service - The ivory-billed woodpecker and the California
condor top the list of America's 10 most endangered birds
issued today by the National Audubon Society. The 100 year
old conservation group says it is reporting on the survival
of the nation's rarest bird species to show how heavily they
depend upon the Endangered Species Act, which itself is now
endangered. Click
here
From the Serengeti to Austin Texas — Watching
Wildlife is Bringing in the Bucks
24 March 2006 - Nairobi,
Kenya - Wildlife watching is fast becoming a multi-million
if not multi-billion dollar industry with the potential to
fight poverty by pumping vital income into local communities
and conservation initiatives. Click
here [See below under Publications.]
Hot Topic Gets Warm Support
23 March 2006 - By
Robert C. Cowen, Christian Science Monitor - Global warming
is getting hotter both politically and climatically. Key skeptics
of global warming among American evangelical Christians have
made a 180-degree turn. They now call for immediate action
to curb emissions of the heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas
that drives climate warming. Click
here
Environmentalists Decry Korean Sea Wall
South Korea's Supreme Court ruled Thursday in Favor
of Continuing Construction
22 March 2006 - By
James Card, Christian Science Monitor - Byeonsan Peninsuala,
South Korea – South Korea's biggest conservation battle
ended Thursday as the Supreme Court ruled in favor of continuing
construction on the controversial Saemangeum sea wall, which
when completed will become the longest in the world. The massive
$3.58 billion project aims to convert some 99,000 acres of
tidal wetlands into landfill and a reservoir by putting the
area behind a 20-mile wall that will block the tide and dam
the Dongjin and Mangyeung Rivers that flow into the shallow
estuary. For more of this article click
here. Friends of the Earth Korea are continuing to oppose
it. For more information click
here.
How Can You Help Preserve Habitat?
Hunters Have Long Helped Protect Habitat. Birders
Need to Lend a Hand Too
14 March 2006
- By Jim Williams - Minnestoa Star Tribune - For years, hunters
have carried the weight of land acquisition and restoration
effort. As the saying goes, hunters show up (at meetings),
speak up (in support of birds and their habitat) and pay up
(they buy the duck stamp, for one thing). Birdwatchers seem
to lack whatever it is that galvanizes hunters - but they
too should work to preserve and create habitat. So how to
do it? "Well, you don't have to be a hunter to buy a
duck stamp. You just need $15 -- about the price you'd pay
for 50 pounds of black oil sunflower seed. The 2006-2007 stamp
goes on sale June 30 at your local post office. So go out
and buy the stamp..." Click
here [This article was brought to my attention by
Paul Baicich]
Free-flowing Rivers Disappearing Fast
13 March 2006 - Gland,
Switzerland – Most of the world’s largest rivers
are losing their connection to the sea, with nearly a quarter
of those left risk being disconnected in the next 15 years.
According to a new WWF report, only a third of the world’s
177 large rivers (1,000km and longer) remain free-flowing,
unimpeded by dams or other barriers. Only 21 of these actually
run freely from source to sea, the other 43 are large tributaries
of rivers such as the Congo, Amazon and Lena. Click
here
Scientists: Endangered Species Act Rewrite Must Be
Science-Based (USA)
8 March 2006 Environment
News Service - Over 5,700 scientists with biological expertise
have signed a letter to the U.S. Senate in an effort to ensure
that the Endangered Species Act, which they call the "cornerstone
of the United States' most basic environmental protections,"
continues to conserve biodiversity by using the best available
science. The letter, carrying signatures from scientists in
every state and over 900 institutions, was hand-delivered
to each of the 100 senators today. Click
here
Pesticides Found In Streams Across The United States
6 March 2006 - Environment
News Service - Washington DC - Pesticides are present throughout
the year in most streams in urban and agricultural areas of
the United States, according to a new report released by the
U.S. Geological Survey on Friday. The report is based on data
from 51 major river basins and aquifer systems from Florida
to the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii and Alaska, plus a regional
study in the High Plains aquifer system. Click
here
China to Spend Nearly $1 Billion to Repel Wetland
Rats
2 March 2006 - Reuters
- Beijing - China will target a 7.5 billion yuan ($934 million)
fund at repelling an invasion of rats eating their way across
fragile wetlands on the Tibetan plateau, the China Daily said
on Friday. Over the past decade, rats had chewed through one
third of the grasslands in the massive Sanjiangyuan Nature
Reserve in remote western Qinghai province, exacerbating erosion
around the world's highest and largest wetlands, the report
said. Click
here
Audubon Joins
with Other Conservationists to Sue Federal Government and
Save Songbird Rapidly Disappearing from Eastern Forests
17 March 2006 - Audubon
- Asheville, North Carolina (USA) - Five conservation groups
representing almost one million members filed suit on February
28 against Interior Secretary Gale Norton and the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service for ignoring their petition to add the
Cerulean Warbler to the nation's list of threatened species.
Click
here
Powell Says
Wetlands, Levees Vital to Louisiana, USA
24 February 2006 —
By Cain Burdeau, Associated Press - New Orleans - Building
higher levees isn't the sole solution to protecting this city
and the rest of low-lying south Louisiana from killer hurricanes,
President Bush's adviser on Gulf Coast recovery said Thursday.
Other keys, Donald Powell said, are restoring wetlands, upgrading
pumping capacities and strengthening existing flood defenses.
Click here
Northern China Wetlands Drying Up - Xinhua
12 February 2006, Reuters, Beijing - The wetlands along northern
China's biggest river system are drying up because of the
thirst of an expanding population and a fast-growing economy,
Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. Xinhua said 12 main
sections of wetlands along the reaches of the Haihe River,
which used to cover 3,800 sq km (1,465 sq miles), have shrunk
by more than 80 percent over the past five decades to just
538 sq km (207 sq miles). An estimated 300 million people
nationwide have no access to clean water... Click
here
Deadly Fungus Wipes Out Central American Amphibians
7 February 2006, Environment
News Service - Arlington, Virginia - An outbreak of waterborne
fungal disease in western Panama has eliminated eight families
of Panamanian amphibians and is spreading, scientists report
in this week's issue of the "Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences" (PNAS). An outbreak of the infectious
disease chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium
dendrobatidis, is spreading into the El Cope region, researchers
have found. Click
here
Indonesian Turtles Found 12 Years Ago Already on the Brink
6 February 2006 - Environment
News Service, - Jakarta, Indonesia - A small turtle with a
neck so long it resembles a snake is such a hit with collectors
that illegal trade has driven the species to the brink of
extinction. The Roti Island snake-necked turtle, Chelodina
mccordi, found only in the wetlands of the Indonesian island
of Roti, was first described as a new species in 1994, but
is already considered all but extinct in the wild. Click
here
Mining Peru's
Andean Forests Puts Unique Species, Ecosystem at Risk
6 February 2006, Environment News Service, By Craig C. Downer
- Minden Nevada - Between 600,000 and 800,000 hectares in
the mountains and valleys of Piura and Cajamarca states have
recently been given over to companies as mining concessions
by Peru’s national government. The negative impacts
of mining in these mountaintops and side slopes would be pervasive,
affecting some of Peru’s richest farmlands, where mangos,
zapote, lemons, sugar, banana, coffee, rice, kapok, carob
bean, and many other quality crops are produced. The livelihoods
of many thousands of campesinos would be negatively impacted,
as would northwestern Peru’s 231,402 hectare Man and
the Biosphere site lying just to the northwest. Click
here
Greens Say
Disasters Worsened by Wetland Loss
2 February 2006, Reuters,
by Ed Stoddard, Johannesburg - The destruction of the world's
wetlands is exacerbating global disasters such as floods and
famines and is a potential source of conflict in volatile
regions, environmentalists said on Thursday. "By a conservative
estimate, about 50 percent of the wetlands worldwide are gone.
The poor suffer the most because wetland loss often denies
them access to safe drinking water or sources to irrigate
their small plots, contributing to food insecurity. Click
here
On the Web (& PDF documents)
On-Line: Map server for
Ducks Unlimited's Latin America and the Caribbean Waterfowl
Surveys and the "A Directory of Neotropical Wetlands."
Available
(for now) in English, but soon in Spanish. Questions?
email: lac@ducks.org Click
here (Montserrat Carbonell)
Now on-line: San Francisco Bay Joint Venture
Click here
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Wetland in Your Inbox - Sign Up Today!
Wetland Sights and Sounds, from the
Izaak Walton League of America
"Wetland
Sights and Sounds" is a series of email newsletters
to help you get ready for American Wetlands Month in
May. If you sign up now, you will receive one issue
each week in April. This Series introduces you to some
of the ways individuals can promote wetland conservation
in their own backyards. To sign up send a blank email
to: join-friends@list.iwla.org or visit www.iwla.org
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Status and
Trends of Wetlands in the Conterminous United States 1998
- 2004
By T.E. Dahl
U.S. Department of
the Interior; Fish and Wildlife Service. 112pp. 2006. Click
here for the PDF document.
Wildlife Watching and Tourism
United Nations Environment Program
A Study on the Benefits
and Risks of a Fast Growing Tourism Activity and its Impacts
on Species
UNEP 2006. 68 pages. Click
here for the PDF document.
Beyond More
Crop per Drop
International Water Management Institute
By IWMI Director General Frank Rijsberman and Nadia Manning
This 11-page report,
prepared for the World Water Forum (Mexico City, March 15-22),
explores the need for water resources management to include
an approach to manage the complete water cycle, including
both green and blue water - a key message in this report.
The report states that "as much as seventy times more
water is required to grow a person's food than is required
for domestic needs. Even more water is required to maintain
the ecosystem services without which our lifestyle is not
sustainable." 2006. Click
here
Financing Species Conservation
WWF Center for Conservation Finance
By Sarah Koteen
This 67-page guide describes more than 30 mechanisms for financing
species conservation. It is intended to familiarize conservation
professionals – i.e., the managers and staff of government
conservation agencies, international donors, intergovernmental
organizations (IGOs), and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
– with a menu of options for financing species conservation.
The guide covers both revenue-raising and economic incentive
mechanisms, and describes practical cases of each instrument
implemented in the field. September 2004 Click
here
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Publications
The Biology of Freshwater Wetlands
Arnold G van der Valk
This introduction to freshwater wetlands describes those
abiotic features of wetlands that make them unique as
a habitat and examines in detail the adaptations, distributions,
and interactions of various organisms (microbes, invertebrates,
plants, and vertebrates) that collectively form wetland
ecosystems. All kinds of freshwater wetlands are covered
including lacustrine, palustrine, riverine and tidal
forms. The management, conservation and restoration
of wetlands are also covered. 173 pages, Oxford University
Press. Hardcover£55.00 (approx. $97/€81)
2006.
Experiences of an Ornithologist Along the Highways
and Byways of Bolivia
Collecting Birds in an Isolated, Magnificent Land in
the Nineteen Thirties
By Melbourne A. Carriker, Jr. Co-edited by his son Melbourne
R. Carriker and Robert C. Dalgleish
This is an extraordinarily
vivid account by intrepid ornithologist Melbourne Armstrong
Carriker, Jr. of his three expeditions in Bolivia collecting
birds for the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences,
traveling from the torrid tropic jungles to the frozen
mountain valleys. He collected a total of 8,705 bird
specimens, including some new to science, and many new
species of bird lice. These species are listed in two
extensive appendices in the book. Published by AuthorHouse.
452 pages. Softcover. $13.50, electronic copy (1420883526)
$5.95. Available from bkorders@authorhouse.com.
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In Search of Swampland, Revised and Expanded
By Ralph Tiner
Published by Rutgers
University Press, this book was named as one of the best science
books for junior high and high school readers by the American
Association for the Advancement of Science in 1998. This revised
version includes Eastern USA wetlands and has expanded to
provide coverage of Great Lakes wetlands. Available through
a number of online sources (e.g.Amazon.com and www.wetlanded.com)
as well as directly from the publisher (http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/).
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise
By Michael Grunwald
"Grunwald strikes just the right balance of awe, ire,
and analysis in his expert and animated chronicle of the history
of the Everglades, which encompasses the Seminole wars, a
Reconstruction-era land rush, the notorious Roaring Twenties
boom that made Florida swampland "a national punch line,"
the even more rampant and decimating postwar explosion, on
to congressional battles over the beleaguered swamp during
the Clinton and Bush years." Hardback. 464 pages. Simon
& Schuster. February 2006. $27. (available at Amazon.com
and other places)
After the Storm: Restoring America’s Gulf Coast
Wetlands
Published by the Environmental
Law Institute (ELI), this book examines the impacts of Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita and the hard road toward wetland restoration
in the Gulf of Mexico. $24.95. Available through ELI. Click
here
Jobs,
Internships & Opportunities
Director
of Communications, American Bird Conservancy
This full-time
position is located at ABC's offices in Washington,
D.C., overseeing media relations, publications, web
and electronic communications, internal communications,
and IT. The Director of Communications is responsible
for managing up to four other staff members, setting
priorities and direction for ABC communications, and
achieving long-term communications goals. Posted February
20 (but without a deadline.) For more information contact
Merrie Morrison, Vice President of Operations: mmorr@abcbirds.org
1st Director's Wetland Research Fellowship Competition
for Potential Ph.D. students in Wetland Ecology, Science,
Engineering, and/or Policy
The Wilma H.
Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park (ORWRP)
at The Ohio State University offers this fellowship.
Research will be conducted in programs at the ORWRP
and can be at any of a number of local and/or international
wetland research sites by mutual agreement between the
successful candidate and the ORWRP Director. The 2006-07
stipend is for $20,000 per year (4 quarters) in addition
to tuition and fees. For more information contact Director
William J. Mitsch at mitsch.1@osu.edu. Applications
are due April 20, 2006.
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Calendar for
2006 & beyond...
April
8 –-12
April
International Conference on Hydrology and Management
of Forested Wetlands, New Bern, North Carolina.
Click
here
27
–- 28 April
11th Annual American Museum of Natural History,
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) Conserving
Birds in Human-Dominated Landscapes: A Biodiversity
Symposium. To be held at the American Museum of Natural
History, New York, New York. Click
here
May
American Wetland Month
13 May
International Migratory Bird Day
The 2006 theme is the Boreal Forest: Bird Nursery of
the North Click here
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June
11 –- 14 June
II Congress of Neotropical Raptors and Symposium on Raptors
of the South Cone
Iguazu, Argentina. Deadline
for submission of presentations and abstracts is February
1, 2006. Abstracts must be written in Spanish, English or
Portuguese and must be no greater than 250 words. Oral or
poster presentations may be in any of these languages. There
will be simultaneous translation during the oral presentations.
Deadline for travel grants is February 1, 2006. ThePeregrine
Fund will concede a limited number of travel grants to Latin-American
and Caribbean participants. Click
here
20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology,
Conservation Without Borders
San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, California,
USA. Click
here
30 June
Deadline for Ramsar Small Grants
Click
here for The SGF Operational Guidelines.
July
9 - 14 July
The Society of Wetland Scientists Annual Meeting will be held
in Cairns, Australia, as a joint meeting with the Australian
Marine Science Association. For further information, visit
the website or contact the
conference organiser, Sally Brown: Sally.Brown@uq.net.au,
or the conference chair, David Rissik: David.Rissik@nrc.nsw.gov.au
August
6 – 11 August
Ecological Society of America 91st Annual Meeting
Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Click
here
13 – 19 August
24th International Ornithological Congress
The Deutsche Ornithologen–Gesellschaft (DO–G,
German Ornithologist's Society) and Institute of Avian Reseach
'Vogelwarte Helgoland,' Wilhelmshaven
Hamburg, Germany. Click here
29 – 31 August
Wetlands 2006: Wetlands of the Great Lakes
Organized by the Association of State Wetland Managers. Grand
Traverse Resort and Spa, Traverse City, Michigan, USA. For
more information contact: laura@aswm.org.
22 – 25 August
5th European Conference on Ecological Restoration, Greifswald,
Germany. Click
here
28 – 31 August
Great
Lakes and Beyond
Wetlands 2006 International Symposium: Applying Scientific,
Legal, and Management Tools to the Great Lakes and Beyond.
Organized by the Association of State Wetland Managers. Grand
Traverse Resort and Spa, Traverse City, Michigan, USA. Click
here or email Laura at: laura@aswm.org.
September
1 – 3 September
Seabird Populations Under Pressure
Aberdeen, Scotland. To be hosted by the (UK) Seabird Group.
For further information contact: Mark Tasker: mark.tasker@jncc.gov.uk
8 – 17 September
Jocotoco
Birdathon - to take place at two Jocotoco Foundation
Reserves - The Buenaventura Reserve, located in southwestern
Ecuador. Sponsored by the American Bird Conservancy, the Wisconsin
Bird Conservation Initiative and Jocotoco Foundation. This
event seeks to raise money to save habitat for Ecuador's rarest
birds while helping two Important Bird Areas battle for the
title of "Birdiest Reserve." For more information
contact: Craig Thompson, (608) 785-1277, Craig.Thompson@dnr.state.wi.us.
11 – 14 September 2006,
HydroEco2006 International Multidisciplinary Conference
on Hydrology and Ecology: The Groundwater/Ecology
Connection, Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic. Click
here
October
2 – 7 October
4th North American Ornithological Conference
(NAOC)
Veracruz, Mexico. Other associated meetings: American Ornithologists'
Union, Association of Field Ornithologists, CIPAMEX (Sección
Mexicana de Consejo Internacional para la Preservación
de las Aves, A. C.) , Cooper Ornithological Society, Raptor
Research Foundation, Society of Canadian Ornithologists /
Société des Ornithologistes du Canada, The Waterbird
Society, Wilson Ornithological Society. Click
here
December
9 – 13 December
3rd National Conference and Expo on Coastal and Estuarine
Habitat Restoration, "Forging the National Imperative
for Restoration" New
Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Hilton Riverside Hotel. Contact Conference
Planning/Program coordinator, Steve Emmett-Mattox at sem@estuaries.org
Click here
2007
June 2007
4 – 9 June
VIII Neotropical Ornithological Congress
Maturín (Monagas), Venezuela & Unión Venezolana
de Ornitología. Click
here
August 2007
5 –- 10 August
92nd Annual Meeting of The Ecological Society of America
San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, California
8 – 11 August
2007
A meeting of The American Ornithologists' Union will meet
at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming
2008
9 – 15 June
2008
13th International Peat Congress After Wise Use
- The Future of Peatlands, Tullamore, Ireland.
Click
here
The End
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