U.S. Representative John C. Fleming, M.D.
Representative John C. Fleming has steadfastly supported migratory bird initiatives, legislation, and funding since his election to Congress in 2008.
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory works tirelessly with the Joint Ventures in the western and central United States and northern Mexico to support bird and habitat conservation priorities.
Maine Wetlands Protection Coalition
The Maine Wetlands Protection Coalition is a group of partners that has worked together to permanently protect over a million acres of wildlife habitat.
South Carolina Working Group of the South Atlantic Migratory Bird Initiative
Through the ACE Basin Focus Area Task Force and similar Task Forces focused on Winyah Bay and the South Lowcountry partners in South Carolina have worked together to protect the most critically-important landscapes for birds and other wildlife.
The Pingree Family
In 1993, the Pingree Family initiated an independent, third-party green-certification of their forestland in Maine to the highest international standards. These efforts resulted in the Seven Islands Land Company becoming the world’s largest third-party certified sustainable forest products company.
Multi-state Conservation Coordination in the Southeastern U.S.
Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture (LMVJV) partners teamed up in April 2013 to increase coordination among Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) organizations in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and its core conservation partners in the Lower Mississippi Valley. What began as a concept has evolved into a well established three-state coordination group; the Tri-state Conservation Coordination [...]
2013 Acquisition of the Year
In the relatively small geographic scope of the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture, which comprises just nine counties but over 7 million people, land acquisition for wetland restoration has been a priority of the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture since its inception in 1996. Thanks to a history of salt making and hay farming, much [...]
Sonoran Desert Breeding Bird Surveys
Development of a monitoring strategy of poorly-monitored bird species and species of concern of the Sonoran Desert.
Rebuilding Habitat Shoreline Resilience in the San Francisco Bay
"Flood Control 2.0: Rebuilding habitat shoreline resilience through improved flood control channel design and management" is an ambitious effort to restore stream and wetland habitats, water quality, and shoreline resilience to the San Francisco Bay. The project is a partnership between the San Francisco Estuary Partnership, San Francisco Bay Joint Venture, San Francisco Estuary Institute, [...]
Studying Climate Change and its Impact on Birds in Mexico
Sonoran Joint Venture staff and other partners recently published an article about the status of climate change research for bird conservation in Mexico in HUITZIL, the Mexican ornithology journal.Global climate change is affecting the world’s biodiversity. In Mexico, several lines of research have been developed to forecast the effects of climate change on bird distributions. [...]