WASHINGTON (April 18, 2024) – A bipartisan invoice that reauthorizes and enhances a conservation program for migratory birds all through the Americas was handed by the Senate by voice vote yesterday. The invoice, generally known as the Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Enhancements Act (H.R. 4389/S. 4022), was recently passed by the U.S. Home of Representatives. Now, the invoice heads to President Biden’s desk for his signature.
The Senate laws was launched by Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and John Boozman (R-Ark.). The Home laws was co-sponsored by Representatives María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Dave Joyce (R-OH), and Mary Peltola (D-AK).
“Migratory birds are actually winging their manner throughout borders, touring hundreds of miles alongside their routes for spring migration, and want conservation at each step alongside the best way,” mentioned Marshall Johnson, chief conservation officer of the Nationwide Audubon Society. “Along with delighting 96 million birdwatching Americans yearly, migratory species play vital roles within the habitats that they move by and nest. By reauthorizing this program, we can assist guarantee their survival and the endurance of the communities they share for many years extra to return. We’re grateful for Senator Cardin and Senator Boozman’s dedication to conservation and to the safety of our nation’s migratory birds, and we sit up for President Biden signing this laws quickly.”
The laws will reauthorize funding and improve accessibility for companions to take part in the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (NMBCA) program, which has funded more than 700 projects in 43 countries, conserving 350 species that nest within the U.S. and Canada, and winter in Latin America and the Caribbean. For instance, the NMBCA has conserved key forested landscapes for Cerulean Warblers from the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia to the Andes Mountains in Colombia, improved grassland habitat for Bobolinks on working lands from New York to Argentina, and benefitted shorebirds comparable to Hudsonian Godwits from Alaska to Chile.
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