Ottawa, 22 Could 2024 – Press Launch
On Could 22, the Worldwide Day for Organic Range, the Honorable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Worldwide Improvement, introduced an funding of 15 million canadian {dollars} over 3 years to Birds Canada to assist the well being of biodiversity and ecosystems in Latin America and the Caribbean by means of the Conserva Aves Initiative. This contribution will shield migratory birds and their habitats and assist obtain the targets of the Kunming-Montreal World Biodiversity Framework. Particularly, the funding will allow partnerships to assist regionally led, and gender-equitable conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean, to create 100 new protected areas totaling no less than 2 million hectares.
Because of this funding, Birds Canada turns into the most recent accomplice in Conserva Aves – a hen and biodiversity conservation partnership created in 2021 – becoming a member of American Chook Conservancy, Nationwide Audubon Society, BirdLife Worldwide, and the Latin American and Caribbean Community of Environmental Funds (RedLAC).
The well being of migratory hen populations is a key shared indicator of biodiversity; three billion birds have been misplaced in North America since 1970, most of which spend over half the yr in Latin America and the Caribbean. Conserva Aves is a crucial reply to this problem as an inclusive conservation and local weather change mitigation technique benefiting birds, biodiversity, and current and future generations.
Birds know no boundaries and join us all within the shared duty to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. Birds Canada brings to the initiative a long time of data in migration ecology, Neighborhood Science monitoring, and collaboration with Indigenous Peoples, together with tasks within the Americas, such because the Motus Wildlife Monitoring System. Via Conserva Aves, the group will work with nationwide and native form of companions to assist regionally led and gender-equitable change, significantly girls, Indigenous Peoples, and Afro-descendant Peoples to attain inclusive nature conservation.
Birds Canada joins Conserva Aves at a related second when the initiative is increasing its wings from the Tropical Andes preliminary section to Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. These areas are house to a few of the highest biodiversity anyplace on Earth and supply winter houses for a lot of migratory birds.
Altogether, Conserva Aves has seen thrilling success so far. At the moment working in eight nations, with 4 of them already totaling 1,158,600 hectares (2,862,963 acres) in protected areas within the technique of being formally declared. The initiative can be advancing preliminary conversations with accomplice organizations in Guatemala, Belize, and Caribbean nations to achieve the aim of two million hectares of subnational protected areas in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2028.
Flying collectively takes us additional, as we’ve already seen in these two years of implementing Conserva Aves. Conservation is connection: connecting data, territories of life, sources, communities, and native and nationwide authorities whereas being respectful of accomplice abilities and experiences within the locations the place we work.
We all know that efficient conservation is barely doable with a hemispheric connection, from the Boreal forests of the north to the Patagonia area within the south, from the Andes to the Caribbean, and all through Central America and Mexico. We can’t do that work alone. Solely by means of worldwide partnerships can we obtain full annual life cycle conservation of our shared birds and hemispheric biodiversity.
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“Birds Canada is thrilled to be becoming a member of the Conserva Aves initiative due to a big funding by the Authorities of Canada. All through the hemisphere, birds unite us. Creating protected areas in Latin America and the Caribbean is not going to solely assist these nations halt and reverse biodiversity loss – it would assist Canada do the identical, by defending important overwintering habitat for dozens of migratory hen species. By working collectively, we are going to assist significant conservation motion and gender fairness that advantages birds, biodiversity, and native communities.”
– Patrick Nadeau, President and CEO, Birds Canada
“American Chook Conservancy appears to be like ahead to working with Birds Canada to advance conservation for migratory and resident birds whereas additionally empowering and enhancing the livelihoods of Indigenous peoples and native communities. Their involvement will additional strengthen Conserva Aves’ work with ABC’s companions all through Latin American BirdScapes, locations the place sensible land use results in profitable hen conservation. Collectively, we are going to promote and spend money on finest administration practices that profit birds, nature, and folks.”
– Michael J. Parr, President of American Chook Conservancy (ABC)
“A hemispheric strategy to hen conservation is among the key drivers in Audubon’s ongoing work to bend the hen curve, and Conserva Aves is a robust instance of that. In lower than two years, the initiative has seen important outcomes made doable by working with communities, native and nationwide companions, and worldwide allies to pool sources round a typical aim. What started as a daring thought and bold mannequin, is now an revolutionary and rising alliance the place new companions like Birds Canada can discover the power, data, folks, and sources to bend the hen curve in favor of biodiversity and the endemic and migratory birds that these territories share. We have fun the arrival of this new member to Conserva Aves.”
– Elizabeth Grey, Nationwide Audubon Society CEO.
“We’re the facility of many. Our accomplice, Birds Canada, has supported caretakers, indigenous communities, and native communities as stewards of protected areas by means of citizen science, improved entry to info akin to KBAs, and hen monitoring. Via their management and dedication, Birds Canada has been advocating for the inclusion of crucial hen websites in land use planning processes and as candidates for elevated safety. This resonates with the character and identification of our Conserva Aves initiative. We search to assist the creation, efficient administration, recognition, and sustainability of community-led subnational protected areas grounded in conventional data and safeguards. Integrating Birds Canada’s experience into Conserva Aves will bolster the efficacy of our general strategy, significantly by way of facilitating entry to info and decision-making instruments.”
– Martin Harper, BirdLife Worldwide CEO.
“We have fun this partnership with Birds Canada to fly collectively and to guard new territories of life. Their arrival reinforces Conserva Aves’ dedication to working with native communities and ethnic teams, encouraging participation and respecting their worldview to strengthen empowerment and inclusion within the area. We all know that the worldwide ambition of a 30×30 conservation goal is a tricky highway, however achievable with our regional, nationwide and native companions working with ardour and assist from all of us.”
– Jorge Oviedo, President of the Latin America and the Caribbean Community of Environmental Funds (RedLAC).