jliddell
01-07-2009, 08:07 PM
Audubon Society Focuses On Endangered Birds
<img src="http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/black-tern.jpg" align=center border=1 alt="The Black Tern is targeted for protection under the act">
The Black Tern pictured here is one of 341 bird species targeted for protection
under the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act
Christopher Rustay will discuss the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act and how it has benefited New Mexico on </ January 15. The free program will be held at St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church, NW corner of Copper and Jefferson NE.
The Act established a matching grants program to fund projects that promote the conservation of birds in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. New Mexico has been involved in a partnership with Mexico to work with ranchers to manage desert grasslands to be bird friendly and to create "forage banks" that help both ranchers and birds.
The program will present information on how New Mexico has benefited from some of the projects and the potential to increase funding for the Act.
Rustay, a well-known expert on birds in New Mexico, is a member of the Central New Mexico Audubon Society Board of Directors and works for the Playa Lakes Joint Venture, a group dedicated to conserving wetland and prairie birds in the southern Great Plains.
<img src="http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/black-tern.jpg" align=center border=1 alt="The Black Tern is targeted for protection under the act">
The Black Tern pictured here is one of 341 bird species targeted for protection
under the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act
Christopher Rustay will discuss the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act and how it has benefited New Mexico on </ January 15. The free program will be held at St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church, NW corner of Copper and Jefferson NE.
The Act established a matching grants program to fund projects that promote the conservation of birds in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. New Mexico has been involved in a partnership with Mexico to work with ranchers to manage desert grasslands to be bird friendly and to create "forage banks" that help both ranchers and birds.
The program will present information on how New Mexico has benefited from some of the projects and the potential to increase funding for the Act.
Rustay, a well-known expert on birds in New Mexico, is a member of the Central New Mexico Audubon Society Board of Directors and works for the Playa Lakes Joint Venture, a group dedicated to conserving wetland and prairie birds in the southern Great Plains.