Several new or ongoing grants were secured to assist ACJV partner efforts to conserve land, implement restoration projects, and test promising management actions outlined in our conservation plans. For the third year in a row, every NAWCA and National Coastal Wetland Conservation Grant proposal submitted by ACJV partners was funded! Read more about all [...]
From the Coordinator Aimee Weldon, ACJV Coordinator As 2020 bled into 2021, it became clear that pandemic life - remote working, zoom meetings and the longest travel drought most of us have ever experienced in our professional careers - was to continue as the new normal. We have missed dinners out with our [...]
Black Rail Conservation Plan The ACJV published the Black Rail Conservation Plan in July 2020. This is the first ever comprehensive plan to conserve Black Rails. The plan lays out six priority strategies needed to achieve a sustainable population of 2,500 breeding pairs of Black Rails. Of particular note is that the plan focuses most [...]
The goal of Joint Venture planning efforts is to inform and catalyze conservation on the ground. With our partners, we are actively pursuing opportunities to accelerate implementation projects that address the highest priority plan objectives at a regional scale. Over the past year, our plans have helped to bring in several large grants. The past two [...]
American Black Duck Conservation Plan The American Black Duck was once the most abundant dabbling duck in eastern North America. Black duck populations began declining steadily in the 1950s and reached an all-time low by the 1980s, having lost more than half of their historical population. Populations have stabilized since then, but they remain below [...]
Red Knot. USFWS The Georgia Dept of Natural Resources (GADNR), with many conservation partners, is in the process of protecting 26,278 acres of salt marshes, tidal creeks, freshwater wetlands, maritime forests, and longleaf pine and wiregrass savannah in coastal Georgia. Located just across the Intracoastal Waterway from Cumberland Island National Seashore, Cabin Bluff [...]
The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources is working with partners to permanently protect 8,884 acres of land--the largest privately-held land holding--on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The Delmarva Peninsula is a hemispherically-significant region that supports migratory stopover habitat for millions of birds each year. Newly protected land on the Delmarva Peninsula. VADWR Heralded [...]
From the Coordinator ACJV Coordinator, Aimee Weldon The last year has been full of challenges for everyone, both personally and professionally. We have had to learn new ways to teach our children, buy groceries, and plan a meeting. While we have all had low days, it’s the high days and our many incredible [...]
Atlantic Coast Joint Venture partners involved in the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) grants program had a very successful year in 2018. Eleven Standard grant projects were awarded $1 million dollars each in six states: Maine, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. These eleven projects conserved nearly 92,000 acres of wetland and [...]
Last summer, for the third year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in partnership with the Student Conservation Association (SCA), offered 59 fellowship opportunities nationwide, to students enrolled or accepted in undergraduate or graduate degree programs, for its Directorate Resource Assistant Fellows Program (DFP). The DFP is an 11-week summer fellowship designed to provide students [...]
