{"id":2,"date":"2013-02-26T15:07:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T15:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.1.10.150\/carib\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-05-22T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T16:22:23","slug":"our-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.birdscaribbean.org\/our-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BirdsCaribbean is a vibrant international network of members and partners committed to conserving Caribbean birds and their habitats through education, conservation, science and action.\u00a0We coordinate a number of programs that help build capacity and empower our local partners to raise awareness, engage communities, and study, manage, and protect birds and the diverse habitats they need to survive\u2014from backyards, parks, and schoolyards, to wetlands, coastal areas and forests. We strongly believe that developing a culture of stewardship and appreciation for nature in all the islands gives us our best long-term chance of ensuring a healthy environment for all.<\/p>\n

Thanks to YOU – our members, donors and supporters – we’ve achieved so much over the years. We invite you to explore our website, and read our news\/blog posts that describe all the positive\u00a0results\u00a0we have attained\u2014from saving habitats from destruction to getting educational materials and binoculars into the hands of our partner organizations, to training and building local partner capacity for bird monitoring\u00a0and tourism.<\/p>\n

To achieve these goals, BirdsCaribbean holds a weeklong international\u00a0conference<\/a> every two years to facilitate networking and sharing of ideas\u00a0among ornithologists, resource managers, and interested citizens. This meeting is also used as a forum to run training workshops on topics related to bird\u00a0conservation, education, management, and research. BirdsCaribbean has a number of active Working Groups and Programs and publishes The Journal of Caribbean Ornithology (JCO)<\/a> and a monthly\u00a0newsletter. With\u00a0assistance from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/a>, BirdsCaribbean has\u00a0sponsored the publication of many local bird field guides.<\/p>\n

BirdsCaribbean works to raise public awareness, knowledge and appreciation of the value of the region\u2019s many endemic bird species and their habitats through two\u00a0flagship programs: the Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0\u00a0West Indian Whistling-Duck and Wetlands Conservation Project<\/a>. Thanks to a partnership with Environment for the Americas, BirdsCaribbean raises awareness about migratory birds, their amazing journeys and the critical importance of the Caribbean as stopover and wintering habitat through celebration of International Migratory Bird Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Through our new BirdSleuth Caribbean<\/a> program we are training teachers in the Caribbean to involve young people in the natural world and build their science skills. The overall goal is to develop a strong conservation ethic in young people and promote commitment to environmental stewardship by increasing their knowledge and interest in birds, nature and science. The program uses the innovative BirdSleuth International curriculum developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology<\/a> and adapted for the Caribbean context.<\/p>\n

We encourage monitoring of waterbirds and wetlands through our Caribbean Waterbird Census program<\/a>. Not in its eighth year, the program has provided invaluable insights<\/a> into key sites<\/a> for shorebirds and waterbirds in the region as well as as raised the profile of mangroves, salinas and other endangered wetland habitats in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BirdsCaribbean is a vibrant international network of members and partners committed to conserving Caribbean birds and their habitats through education, conservation, science and action.\u00a0We coordinate a number of programs that help build capacity and empower our local partners to raise awareness, engage communities, and study, manage, and protect birds and the diverse habitats they need …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

BirdsCaribbean is a vibrant international network of members and partners committed to conserving Caribbean birds and their habitats through education, conservation, science and action.\u00a0We coordinate a number of programs that help build capacity and empower our local partners to raise awareness, engage communities, and study, manage, and protect birds and the diverse habitats they need to survive\u2014from backyards, parks, and schoolyards, to wetlands, coastal areas and forests. We strongly believe that developing a culture of stewardship and appreciation for nature in all the islands gives us our best long-term chance of ensuring a healthy environment for all. Thanks to YOU…<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"","author_info_v2":{"name":"Mark Yokoyama","url":"https:\/\/www.birdscaribbean.org\/author\/mark-yokoyama\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Mark Yokoyama","author_link":"https:\/\/www.birdscaribbean.org\/author\/mark-yokoyama\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":null,"rttpg_excerpt":"BirdsCaribbean is a vibrant international network of members and partners committed to conserving Caribbean birds and their habitats through education, conservation, science and action.\u00a0We coordinate a number of programs that help build capacity and empower our local partners to raise awareness, engage communities, and study, manage, and protect birds and the diverse habitats they need…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdscaribbean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdscaribbean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdscaribbean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdscaribbean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdscaribbean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdscaribbean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24928,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdscaribbean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/24928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdscaribbean.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}