Partners in Action: Coastal Impoundment Restoration in Delaware
The Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) is currently working on coastal impoundment restoration and shoreline/beach restoration through a Hurricane Sandy Relief Grant funded through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. All projects are [...]
Giant Leap Forward for Nonbreeding Waterbird Conservation
Lesser Yellowlegs Soon summer will give way to fall and waterbirds will depart their breeding areas enroute to their wintering grounds. Collectively, waterfowl, shorebirds and long-legged wading birds (i.e. waterbirds) will depend on [...]
Red Knot Banding Season is Here!
Juvenile red knot (note the greenish-yellow legs) getting a band. USFWS Biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Virginia Tech, Audubon, and Clemson University worked to [...]
Stronghold for Birds in North Carolina
Audubon North Carolina's Sanctuary in Corolla has been identified as being in the top 2 percent of strongholds for birds to survive the effects of climate change over the next century. In order to continue [...]
NAWCA & Coastal Grant Update
Coastal habitat in Delaware. Photo courtesy of Kevin Kalasz Twenty-three North American Wetland Conservation Act grants and eleven National Coastal Wetland Conservation Grants were awarded in the ACJV in fiscal year 2015. Partners [...]
Long-time ACJV Management Board Memeber Wayne MacCallum Retires
Wayne MacCallum, Director of Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, retired in February. Wayne served on the ACJV Management Board since it's inception in 1988 and has been a strong advocate for the North American [...]