What comes to me first on this topic would be a local push to support the
national effort to convince owners to have only indoor cats.
Sarah Fern
Jody W Enck j...@cornell.edu wrote:
Hi all,
When I think about the topic of bird conservation, I think about all the
great work that gets done at the local level. In particular, I think about
conservation actions that increase bird habitat (e.g., habitat restoration
and management) as well as actions that slow down the loss of bird habitat
(e.g., conservation easements and set-asides). There also are important
actions aimed more at birds than at bird habitat per se. For example, I
think of the issues of used fishing line receptacles, putting up next boxes
or other structures (osprey platforms), etc. I personally am thrilled that
the Cayuga Bird Club has recently started up a conservation committee to take
a more active role in bird conservation locally.
All of this has gotten me thinking about how somebody knows that bird
conservation is occurring. What kinds of things do we count as successes? I
think there probably are lots of different possible answers. I ask this
mostly because if we all want to (1) achieve more bird conservation on the
ground locally, and (2) attract more people to accomplish that conservation,
I think it would be particularly useful to understand and communicate about
what kinds of conservation “outcomes” we’d like to see happen. I think it’s
hard to get my friends and neighbors interested in bird conservation if they
don’t really know what that means.
I hope this stimulates some fruitful discussion.
Thanks.
Jody
Jody W. Enck, PhD
Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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