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NatioNal auduboN Society — iNterNatioNal Strategy 1

Building on our rich history and iconic brand, the National Audubon Society has launched a major initiative to follow birds across national boundaries, taking a hemispheric approach that will have a transformational effect on birds and biodiversity.

This is a critical moment in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, which faces rapid economic growth, increased global demand for its natural resources, and changing climate conditions, all of which pose unprecedented challenges that will transform how people live. The region holds 28% of the world’s land suitable for agricultural expansion and demand for the region’s energy is outpacing economic growth by 150% (World Bank, 2012), which portend land use changes and natural resource exploitation at a massive scale.

At risk are the region’s rich natural resources, which include 50% of the planet’s tropical forests, 30% of its freshwater, and up to 30% of its fish supply (UNEP, 2010). This abundance supports an astonishing 40% of the world’s biodiversity, including more than 4,200 species of birds (BirdLife, 2012). Of those, 396 are Neotropical migrants shared with the United States that spend half or more of their lives in Latin America and the Caribbean (USFWS, 2012).

In addition, in the face of climate change, fragmented and weakened ecosystems will have neither the capacity needed to provide the region’s people with adequate vital resources—including fresh water, food, wood, and other products—nor the resiliency to mitigate the effects of storms, droughts, and changes in sea level.

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Protecting the Migratory SuPerhighwayS of the aMericaS

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If conservation efforts are not woven into the region’s development plans, we will see devastating impacts on biodiversity, as well as limited possibilities for a sustainable economic future that ensures an improved standard of living for the region’s inhabitants.

Conservation Spanning the Hemisphere— A Flyways Approach to Migratory BirdsTo address these challenges, Audubon has joined with BirdLife International1 and other organizations to work throughout the Americas to create a new model that integrates societal, economic, and biodiversity needs to stem the loss of bird species and biodiversity while improving people’s quality of life.

This regional network of 19 BirdLife International Partners and others with whom we work in 10 countriesin Latin America and the Caribbean—coupled with Audubon’s network of 21 state offices, 465 Chapters, and 50 nature centers in the United States—provides the foundation for efforts to achieve real, enduring conservation results at the scale needed to affect bird survival. Our initial focus on 35 target neotropical migratory species helps determine where we work and provides a basis for conserving hundreds of other migratory and local birds as well as the rich diversity of flora and fauna that share the same habitats.

Audubon will use our expertise in capacity building, high-level policy development, bird-based science, community engagement, education, advocacy, and social marketing to achieve conservation success in the region by: x Strengthening a suite of local BirdLife partners and other organizations

technically, operationally, and financially to carry out solid, enduring conservation efforts over the coming decades;

x Engaging governments and corporations to make better national and local development decisions and improve the overall context for conservation;

x Applying our science and technical capacities to key conservation issues to inform decision making and to monitor conservation status;

x Building key constituencies through education and outreach that empowers people to promote and actively support conservation in their communities and globally; and

x Harnessing the power of our magazine, chapter network, and membership to reach a wide audience that can support our hemispheric conservation approach.

2The Important Bird Areas (IBA) Program is a global effort initiated by BirdLife International to identify and conserve areas vital to birds and other biodiversity.

If conservation efforts

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Audubon’s Value Added

What we do � How we work � results

` capacity building

` Policy development

` applied science

` education

` engagement and advocacy

` Marketing

` funding

` Partnerships & alliances developed / strengthened

` capacity development x training & exchanges x workshops x Strategic planning

` grassroots engagement x education campaigns x Social marketing x citizen science

` engaging governments & private sector

` Scientific analysis

` Provision of expert knowledge

` threats abated

` improved capacity

` improved policy context

` People reached

` improved funding

�Birds saved

Acres saved

Over the next three years, by focusing on these core competencies and aligning strategies with our network that spans the Americas, Audubon will:

Work with partners to concentrate on results-based actions that span a chain of habitats essential to the survival of migratory species and their ability to complete their annual journey. The yearly journey of migratory birds takes them across vast land and seascapes that contain a wide variety of distinct tropical and temperate habitat types that birds depend on for breeding, stopovers, and wintering. This obliges us to select key areas where we will reinforce on-the-ground conservation in selected places in North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean that complete the chain of viable habitats and associated Important Bird Areas (IBAs)2.

Address major threats at specific sites and at higher scales in order to improve the context for conservation. Birds and biodiversity in general face major threats from habitat loss and degradation; predation and hunting; environmental toxins; and manmade barriers such as cities, hardened shorelines and rivers, and transmission lines, wind power, and other energy infrastructure. In addition, the effects of climate change on habitats require us to look at the resilience of the sites where we work. To address these issues, Audubon will carry out high-level strategic actions and develop powerful alliances to address specific threats and strengthen the context for bird and biodiversity conservation by improving policies, encouraging best practices, and building strong constituencies.

Audubon will use our

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policy development,

bird-based science,

community engagement,

education, advocacy,

and social marketing to

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success in the region.

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Better integrate birds into local, national, and regional conservation and development agendas to achieve the long-term stewardship that birds require for their survival. Birds take us to where we need to work, which places us in varied and complex economic, political, and societal settings. For this reason, we work with local people, government entities, and economic sectors such as agriculture and energy to plan and carry out actions and solutions that benefit birds, biodiversity, and people. Our efforts will also leverage and complement sustainable-development initiatives for the people and countries where we work.

Conservation Results: Audubon’s Vision and Three-Year Goals and ObjectivesAudubon envisions that: Key migratory bird populations shared between North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean and the ecosystems that they rely upon will be viable and stable, benefiting the well-being of birds and people, and strike a balance between conservation and development.

Based on this vision, Audubon’s initial goal is to have a transformational effect on critical habitats for at least 10 target Neotropical migratory species3 throughout their lifecycles and to benefit 25 other priority Neotropical migrants, along with countless resident birds and overall biodiversity. To achieve this, over the next three years we will:

Improve the conservation of 10 million acres of habitat that encompass at least 100 key IBAs in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. x Improve the capacity of at least 10 partner organizations (in terms of

technical capacity, governance, leadership, and operating and financial standards) and 200 conservationists to carry out long-term conservation actions.

x Integrate birds into local and national conservation and development agendas in at least three countries to improve national policies and funding.

x Build strategic partnerships with corporations and organizations with regional scope to improve support for bird conservation and to address major conservation threats.

x Expand conservation support to regions of México, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, and Canada to cover the chain of key habitats necessary for migratory and resident species’ survival.

Audubon is implementing five main conservation strategies—Putting Working Lands to Work for Birds & People, Sharing Our Seas & Shores, Saving Important Bird Areas, Shaping a Healthy Climate & Clean Energy Future, and Creating Bird-Friendly Communities—designed to address key issues and challenges facing birds across the Americas.

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that: Key migratory bird

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Latin America, and

the Caribbean and the

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Flyway Level Conservation Strategies and On-the-Ground Results

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putting Working Lands to Work for Birds & people

watersheds of chiloé island, chile

Sustainable management of the Southern cone grasslands and north american grasslands, México and canada (*incubator Project)

Private lands conservation in central america

sharing our seas & shores

Panamá Bay wetlandsMéxico: San QuintinSaving Seabirds México – chile

Saving Shorebirds and Seabirds in central america and the caribbean

saving important Bird Areas

conserving 30 critical iBAs across the hemisphere

Panamá Bay chiloé island, chileBaja Peninsula, Mex.

central Veracruz, MexicoSouthern conegrasslands

Southern cone grasslands

Joulter cays, BahamasMaya Mountains, Belize

shaping a Healthy climate & clean energy

Across all flyways: x improved mitigation of wind and energy transmission development in chile and México x climate-change adaptation of key habitats

creating Bird-Friendly communities

Across all flyways: x engagement and education to create greater community support for conservation in key countries and sites

x expansion of citizen-science monitoring for iBas in Lac (christmas Bird count) x connect audubon chapters in the u.S. with priority international projects and partners internationally

*tHe Bottom Line35 species (some flyways overlap)1.4 million acres30 IBAs

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Within these strategies, Audubon is taking a two-pronged approach: The first addresses threats at scale to improve national and regional contexts for conservation, while the second strengthens on-the-ground land- and seascape-based work focusing on specific habitats and IBAs. These actions take place across our four flyways—Atlantic, Mississippi, Central, and Pacific—and guarantee greater connectivity and cohesiveness of Audubon efforts.

Addressing threats to birds and their ecosystems requires us to think and act at the scale of those threats. To do this, Audubon is focusing initially on energy development, agricultural issues and tourism, and climate change, as well as on building key alliances with governments, multilateral institutions, and the private sector in order to better integrate bird conservation into national and regional conservation and development agendas. These high-level strategies build on our present conservation actions in the Bahamas, Belize, México, Nicaragua, Panama, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Brazil. By achieving on-the-ground results while addressing major national and global issues affecting bird and biodiversity conservation, Audubon and its partners can have a greater impact on long-term species survival.

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By working with local people to make agricultural practices and other economic activities more compatible with conservation, Audubon and its partners can improve and maintain vital habitats for migratory and resident birds while improving the use and management of the natural resource base for people. Audubon is supporting sustainable agricultural and forestry practices in México and Chile and productive grasslands management as part of the Southern Cone Grassland Alliance (Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil). We will strengthen and build upon the conservation work being done in these priority sites by:1 Supporting the Southern Cone Grasslands Alliance of ranchers and BirdLife

Partners to implement natural grasslands-management practices and the sale of natural grass-fed beef.

2 Developing a hemispheric grassland Alliance to connect and leverage expertise in sustainable land management in the Southern Cone with expanded work in México, Canada, and the United States to help balance beef production with habitat needs.

3 Strengthening community-based tourism and development projects in Belize and the Bahamas to improve local connections to the global birding market, improve local capacity to cater to this tourism niche, and support habitat protection.

4 With our Chilean partner CECPAN (Center for Studies and Conservation of Natural Heritage), developing and implementing Best Management Practices (for sustainable agriculture, restoration of riparian areas, and mitigation of human disturbance on key beach areas) with local people in five key watersheds on Chiloé Island that support essential habitat for 99% of the Pacific-breeding Hudsonian Godwit population and other important biodiversity.

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• MéxicoEngage local farmers in land stew-ardship and reforestation in Vera-cruz. Restoring Seabird colonies on seven Islands on the Baja Peninsula. (Need two arrows for Mexico: one to Veracruz on the Gulf Coast and the other to the Baja Peninsula)

• BahamasImprove stewardship and protec-tion of key habitats that support shorebirds and other biodiversity across the Bahamas

• BelizeSafeguard and improve manage-ment of 4 major protected areas.

• NicaraguaIdentify key IBA’s with local partners and focus conservation efforts on an initial set of IBA’s

• PanamáEngage communities and government leaders to conserve at least 500,000 acres of Panama Bays mangroves and wetlands

• Southern Cone GrasslandsSupport a coalition of ranch-ers and NGO’s from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay to implement natural grasslands management

• ChileImprove stewardship of five water-sheds on the Island of Chiloe critical for wintering populations of shore-birds and other unique biodiversity.

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5 With Pronatura Veracruz, engaging and educating local farmers and other residents in land stewardship and reforestation in the Western Hemisphere’s most important migratory corridor for hawks, vultures, falcons, and other raptors. During the last two years, 3,500 acres of forest have been placed into conservation from these efforts.

sHArinG our seAs & sHores

Through our science, community engagement, conservation planning, and the establishment and strengthening of protected areas, we are able to maintain vital migratory stopover and wintering areas for shore and sea birds while addressing development and climate change threats. In conjunction with our BirdLife partners and other key groups, we will mitigate threats and improve conservation activities in key coastal marine sites throughout the Americas.

Audubon will build on its work with partners to expand this strategy by:1 Carrying out shorebird surveys with partners in several remote and little-

studied islands and cays of the Bahamas. We recently helped discover previously unknown wintering habitats for the endangered Piping Plover and other rare shorebirds that breed in the U.S. and Canada. By applying science, engaging communities through education and social marketing, and building the scientific and organizational capacity of the Bahamas National Trust (BNT), we will help establish and expand at least two new protected areas for these crucial habitats.

2 Working with Panama Audubon Society (PAS), we are helping educate communities and engage government leaders to conserve 500,000 acres of Panama Bay’s mangrove forests and wetland habitat. This supports migratory shorebirds from across the hemisphere including some 30% of the global population of Western Sandpiper. We have helped to develop a conservation action plan; to improve PAS’ capacities in science, education, and outreach; and to build community and policy‐level support for the Bay, which faces increased development pressure from Panama City.

3 Establishing a program to help save and restore seabird colonies on key islands in the Caribbean and across the Americas. Building on our world-renowned Seabird Restoration Program in Maine, we will restore key species to priority habitats throughout the Americas. To date we are working on seven islands in Mexico’s Baja Peninsula to improve the conservation status of nine seabird species with our local partner, the Island Ecology and Conservation Group (GECI-Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas). The efforts focus on restoration, stewardship, monitoring, and education, and we have also trained seabird biologists from Puerto Rico, Belize, and other locales.

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sHApinG A HeALtHY cLimAte & cLeAn enerGY Future

Working with local conservation organizations, governments, energy companies, and investors, Audubon will help communities avoid and mitigate the impacts of wind-power development and energy transmission in key conservation areas and along critical migration routes in Latin America. This will be accomplished by developing at least two proof-of-concept mitigation projects. Building off our U.S. work on transmission and wind energy, and using the knowledge and experience gained from our conservation efforts with partners in 10 Latin American countries, Audubon is:1 Identifying habitats and bird species threatened by wind and transmission

development in México and Chile where wind farms are being developed in areas important for bird conservation.

2 Developing collaborative partnerships with key actors in the wind-power and energy transmission sectors, including government agencies, companies, and key multi-lateral funders in order to foster sustainable energy-development practices.

In addition, Audubon will work to improve the resilience of habitats important for migratory species and people in vulnerable areas such as coastal zones that will suffer the effects of sea-level changes. Audubon is working in key habitats such as the Bay of Panamá, where changes in sea level could have a devastating effect on Panama City and other urban areas, and in the grasslands of the Southern Cone, where natural grasslands can help mitigate the effects of changed weather patterns while supporting ranching and biodiversity.

To accomplish this, Audubon will:1 Build a resiliency component into our work to better support people and nature

affected by climate change.2 Use science criteria to help pick areas that can be made more resilient and that

have the best chance to support bird habitats in the face of climate change.

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sAvinG importAnt Bird AreAs

Guaranteeing that migratory birds are able to complete their yearly hemispheric journeys requires Audubon and its partners to focus on the string of key habitats that each species requires for breeding, stopovers, and wintering. Through our science we have identified Globally Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in Latin America and the Caribbean where we focus our conservation efforts for the greatest impact.

To date we are helping steward 30 IBAs. Activities include:1 Working with the Belize Audubon Society to safeguard and improve

management of three of the country’s major protected areas, including four IBAs totaling 140,000 acres;

2 Identifying and helping create new IBAs important for the Piping Plover and other species in the Bahamas.

We will expand the number of global IBAs that we help to conserve to 100 over the next five years.

creAtinG Bird-FriendLY communities

Everywhere Audubon works, our overall approach includes outreach, education, and economic activities for local people designed to directly engage and inspire them to action. This makes conservation more sustainable by improving understanding, acceptance, and support for nature that, in turn, improves the context for our work and builds respect for nature into society’s values and decisions.

In places like Panamá, Belize, and México, Audubon and its partners have helped develop education programs in local schools, establish naturalist clubs, and support economic activities with farmers around key habitats where we work, allowing constituencies to truly connect to nature and support its protection.

We will share and apply Audubon’s education, outreach, and social-marketing expertise as important components of our conservation actions in the sites and countries where we work in the future.

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Expanding Our Hemispheric Reach— Budget, Staff, and StructureAudubon seeks to increase our budget by tenfold, providing $10-million a year to bolster conservation actions across a set of key bird habitats in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada that will help us achieve the full lifecycle conservation essential to saving migratory species. To reach this conservation goal, we will raise private funds as the basis for leveraging greater funding from foundations and public donors.

Presently we are supporting conservation in 10 countries with an annual budget of $820,000 and a team of experts from the Audubon network who provide technical support to our projects.

With an annual budget of $10-million, Audubon and our partners will:

x Achieve lasting conservation of 100 global IBAs across Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Mexico, and Canada;

x Protect 10 million acres of habitat critical to 35 of Audubon’s priority species; x Deliver groundbreaking science to define critical places and key actions; x Support and empower six key partners across the flyways of the Americas

by strengthening their leadership, operations, advocacy, technical capacities, and funding;

x Actively engage governments in 10 countries to integrate bird conservation into national policies and stewardship efforts including national parks management, private lands conservation, bird-based tourism, and monitoring of ecosystem health;

x Launch an international energy strategy to mitigate threats from transmission and wind-power development to key habitats in conjunction with NGO, corporate, and government partners in at least two sites in Chile and Mexico;

x Create a hemispheric alliance for natural grassland management from the Southern Cone to Canada;

x Bring a new brand of enduring seabird conservation to 15 Caribbean and Pacific coastal islands, reintroducing and delivering permanent protection for endangered species and creating a new generation of seabird stewards; and

x Strengthen the BirdLife network to effectively advocate bird conservation across borders and jointly focus efforts on crucial linked landscapes to achieve the full lifecycle conservation of priority migratory species.

At this level of funding, Audubon and its partners will be able to work at the scale necessary for migratory species to survive and at the scale of the conservation and development issues that need to be addressed. This would allow Audubon to take full advantage of the BirdLife partnership and opportunities to advance our joint bird conservation priorities. Through concrete, comprehensive conservation results and strong, effective partnerships, Audubon will establish its niche and expertise globally, have the capacity to develop new projects, and be a recognized leader in the global conservation community.

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increase our budget

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AppendixThe following table shows the seven priority conservation areas, 30 IBAs, and 10 primary and 25 secondary target bird species that Audubon is presently focusing on, as well as the results we are striving for within the next three years.

priority conservation Areas

results primary & secondary target species

Bahamas Joulter Cays, Andros Island, Berry Islands

Acre goal: 43,000

Improved conservation in 4 IBAs.• 3 areas in Joulter Cays (1) and Berry Islands (2) declared as IBAs for Piping

Plover, with at least 1 placed into formal protection • Improved capacity of Bahamas National Trust (science, planning, funding,

and enforcement) for better stewardship of birds within the Protected Areas (PA) system and IBAs.

• Local citizens and landowners more engaged to support bird conservation in key areas.

1. Piping Plover (12% of global population)

2. Red Knot, Short-billed Dowitcher, Wilson’s Plover, Sanderling, Clapper Rail, Western Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Reddish Egret, Roseate Spoonbill

Belize Crooked Tree, Cockscomb,Blue Hole / St. Hermain, Half Moon Cay

Acre goal: 140,000

Improved management of 9 PAs covering 4 IBAs• Belize Audubon Society’s institutional capacity improved in science,

planning, enforcement, and policy to carry out long-term bird stewardship• Improved connectivity among 3 PAs through purchase of at least one key

tract of land.• Local communities support conservation in key PAs through greater

involvement and economic benefit.• Birds integrated into national conservation agenda through science,

policy, and training of future conservation leaders.

1. Wood Thrush2. Cerulean Warbler;

Prothonotary Warbler; Little Blue Heron; Roseate Spoonbill; Wood Stork; Snail Kite (not FL pop); Black necked Stilt

méxicoVeracruz, Baja PeninsulaAcre goal: 20,000

Improved conservation within 8 IBAs.• Forest areas restored on private lands and put into formal protection for

roosting during the raptor migration.• Restoration of bird colonies on 7 islands on the Baja Peninsula.

1. Swainson’s Hawk, Ashy Storm-petrel Cassin’s Auklet

2. Wood Stork; Swallow-tailed Kite, Xantus’s Murrelet

panamá Bay of Panama

Acre Goal: 500,000

Improved conservation of mangroves and mudflats east of Panama City, covering 3 IBAs.• Increased government support for conservation of Panama Bay through

training government staff on regulations and land-use planning.• Conservation coalition supports implementation of new conservation

plan for Panama Bay wetlands by supporting coordination with Panama Audubon Society.

• Develop key scientific information (water quality, bird status, infauna, etc.) to support decision making and inform citizens on the state of the bay.

• Greater public support and engagement garnered for the conservation of the bay through education and outreach.

(Overall area comprises 2,970,000 acres of mangroves and 3,530,000 acres of mudflats.)

1. Western Sandpiper (30% of global population); Prothonotary warbler

2. Short-billed Dowitcher (8%); Semi-palmated Sandpiper (8%); Brown Pelican; Little Blue Heron; Roseate Spoonbill; Wood Stork; Wilson’s Plover; American Oystercatcher; Long-billed Curlew; Hudsonian Godwit; Red knot; Ruddy turnstone; Least Tern; Yellow-billed Cuckoo; Canada Warbler; Bobolink; Swainson’s Hawk

southern cone Grasslands Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay

Acre goal: 700,000

Reduce grasslands habitat loss from unsustainable ranching and soy farming practices on private lands within 10 IBAs.• Ranchers’ coalition members implement natural grasslands best

management practices. • Market-based mechanisms developed to support improved ranching

practices on natural grasslands. • Hemispheric alliance developed to share expertise.

1. Upland Sandpiper2. Bobolink; Swainson’s Hawk

chileChiloé Island

Acre goal: TBD

2 of 5 key watershed/shore areas have improved protection, covering 1 IBA. 1. Hudsonian Godwit (66% of global population; 99% of Alaska population)

nicaragua

Acre goal: TBD

IBAs for entire country identified. Key IBAs identified for investment. 1. Wood Thrush; Golden-winged Warbler

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