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<p class="MsoNormal">Press Release<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For immediate release 5/1/13<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Contact: Diane Silverstein 508-364-7050 birder526@comcast.net<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cape Cod Bird Club Program and Meeting<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May 13, 2013 7:30pm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cape Cod Museum of Natural History<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Route 6A<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brewster, MA <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">May 13, 2013</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Dr. George Fenwick – “Frontiers in Modern Bird Conservation”</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Bird conservation is often used as a catch-all phrase for a suite of activities that are potentially beneficial to birds. American Bird Conservancy’s Strategic Bird Conservation Framework
gets at the core of real bird conservation. Based on the four-pronged approach of preventing extinctions of bird species, conserving habitats for priority birds, eliminating threats facing all birds, and building capacity in the bird conservation movement,
this framework underpins ABC’s work throughout the Americas:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">In Latin America, where the Reserve Network ABC has established with partners includes more than 40 protected areas that harbor more than 2,000 total bird species.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Here in the United States where ABC works to protect and restore the country’s most threatened habitats including young Appalachian forest, longleaf pine, shortgrass prairie, oak savannah, and
forests in Hawaii, the bird extinction capital of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Throughout the Americas, where an abbreviated list of threats to birds that ABC is taking on includes outdoor cats, lead ammunition and fishing gear, highly toxic pesticides, poorly-sited wind
turbines, badly-lit buildings, record-setting oil spills, and floating plastic trash ingested by seabirds.</span><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Dr. Fenwick, President and CEO of the American Bird Conservancy, will discuss ABC’s strategic approach to bird conservation and issues in American Bird Conservation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Dr. Fenwick has been active in conservation for more than 35 years, including 16 years in various capacities with The Nature Conservancy and 18 more as founding President of ABC. He
co-authored </span><i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">The 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the United States</span></i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> (Random House 2003)
and </span><i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation</span></i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> (U. of Chicago Press,
Lynx Edicions 2010). He was nominated for the Indianapolis Prize in 2008, received the American Birding Association’s Chandler Robbins Award in 2009, the Partners in Flight Champion of Bird Conservation Award in 2010, and most recently was honored with the
naming of the newly discovered Fenwick’s Ant-pitta (Grallaria fenwickorum). His Ph.D. from the Department of Pathobiology at Johns Hopkins University examined the effects of introduced species on native waterfowl.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Diane Silverstein<o:p></o:p></p>
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