[SEMCO] CApe Cod Bird Club Monthly Program and Meeting May 13, 2013

[Diane Silverstein]

Press Release
For immediate release  5/1/13
Contact:  Diane Silverstein  508-364-7050  birder526 at comcast.net

Cape Cod Bird Club Program and Meeting
May 13, 2013   7:30pm
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
Route 6A
Brewster, MA

May 13, 2013

Dr. George Fenwick - "Frontiers in Modern Bird Conservation"
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:

  *   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.
  *   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.
  *   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.
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.
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 The 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the United States (Random House 2003) and The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation (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.



Diane Silverstein

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