Manomet Center awarded major NFWF grant to foster shorebird co...(vation accounting' that can judge our pr...)

The projects that the grant will support include:

• New land protection/habitat management initiatives at three critical sites in Mexico, all for high priority species identified in the U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan.
• "Pride" campaigns in three communities in Patagonia, Argentina that host hemispherically important numbers of Red Knots.
• Support for the Tierra del Fuego Bird Observatory to protect migratory shorebirds and support sustainable economic development in southernmost Chile.
• Demographic metrics and success measures ("conservation accounting") for endangered Red Knots as part of a larger recovery effort for the species.
• Strengthening and expanding the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network by identifying and enrolling new sites in Latin America.
• Implementing Manomet's Shorebird Recovery project (SRP), by coordinating and facilitating on-the-ground conservation with partners at WHSRN and other key sites
• Leadership for the Shorebird Research Group of the Americas (SRGA) in their work to determine the underlying causes of shorebird declines.
• Accelerating shorebird monitoring work to measure population sizes and trends with the Program for International and Regional Shorebird Monitoring.
• Enhancing the value of ricelands as shorebird habitat and as a sustainable economic activity in northern South America.

"Migratory species capture our imagination as humans, and depend on healthy ecosystems across the hemisphere that also provide critical benefit to humans as well," said Jeffrey Parrish, Vice-President of Conservation Sciences at Manomet Center. "This leadership grant to Manomet from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation will ensure that we and our partners make dramatic progress in reversing declines of shorebirds-the marathon migrants of the world-while savin
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