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Aligning Capacity and Priorities for Effective Bird Habitat Conservation

Learn about the historic changes and growth in the Atlantic Coast Joint Venture (ACJV) scope, challenges faced, and why setting priorities is crucial. Discover the core functions, habitat delivery through grants, science coordination efforts, and the need to align capacity with priorities to achieve conservation goals effectively.

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Aligning Capacity and Priorities for Effective Bird Habitat Conservation

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  1. Overview on ACJV Priorities

  2. Overview • Why do we need to focus? • Historic changes in ACJV scope • Limitations • Aligning capacity & priorities

  3. ACJV’s Original Focus

  4. ACJV’s Historic Focus • American Black Duck wintering habitat • Coastal wetland wintering areas • High-quality stopover habitat in Lower Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Valley • Breeding habitat in New England

  5. Growth in the 21st Century • “All-Bird” move expanded scope • Dozens more habitat types • Hundreds of new species • Breeding, wintering & stopover habitat • JV budget increased, mostly for new JVs

  6. All Bird Conservation • BCR planning across ACJV area • Wide variety of species/habitats • No budget for science/projects • No funding source to rival NAWCA

  7. Current Capacity • 2 Science staff • 2 Delivery staff • 1 Outreach & 1 Administrator • Coordinate one flyway & 1/3 of states

  8. Why Prioritize? ACJV Mission: “Provide a forum for…partners to coordinate and improve the effectiveness of bird habitat conservation planning, delivery and evaluation in the Atlantic Flyway.” • HUGE area • 291 Priority Species - Many habitats& conservation challenges • ACJV goal: Increase effectiveness Biggest ‘BANG for BUCK’ MUST SET PRIORITIES

  9. Why Prioritize? • 18 other habitat JVs are more focused • Our scope should match our capacity

  10. Core Functions Habitat Delivery: FWS wetland grants • NAWCA • Average 12 Standard ($1M) grants /yr • Average 15 Small ($75k) grants /yr

  11. Core Functions Habitat Delivery: FWS wetland grants • National Coastal Wetland Grants • R4 Average: FundedAcresGrantsTotals 2 3,126 $1.7M $3.3M • R5 Average: Funded AcresGrant$Total 6 1,645 $4.4M $9.1M

  12. Core Functions Science Coordination • Integrated Wetland Management & Monitoring (IWMM) • Population & habitat objectives • Priority science needs & LCCs • DSL project(s) in SAMBI & NALCC

  13. Aligning Capacity & Priorities • Presentations on past/current priorities • Activities we want to continue • Suggest modest increase in one area

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