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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Development of a monitoring strategy of poorly-monitored bird species and species of concern of the Sonoran Desert.
"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, [...]
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. [...]
A multi-agency program to train residents of communities in or near important conservation sites to be bird guides.
Appalachian Mountain Joint Venture (AMJV) and the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative are partnering to re-establish habitat on previously mined land to improve breeding habitat for declining bird species in the Appalachian Region. This collaboration is replanting trees on disturbed sites in heavily populated bird areas to restore habitats after mining activity. These restoration efforts will benefit [...]
The Appalachian Mountain Joint Venture worked with partners to develop new Forest Management Guidelines for improving the condition of Appalachian hardwood forests for Cerulean Warbler. This species’ population has plummeted by nearly 70% over the last half century, with the loss and degradation of large areas of mature deciduous forest contributing to those declines. The [...]
A three-year, multi-partner restoration project designed to connect blocks of Lesser Prairie-Chicken habitat.