In entrance of a pleasant viewers on the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Minister of Worldwide Affairs, the honorable Ahmed Hussen, selected Might 22, Worldwide Biodiversity Day, to announce a whopping $15M of funding over three years for worldwide chook conservation from Canada. Birds Canada, our Canadian accomplice group in BirdLife Worldwide, is the deserved recipient of the funding, although most of it can go to defending habitat in Latin America. This wonderful announcement places Canada entrance and centre as a serious participant in defending chook populations within the Americas.
Billions of birds transfer throughout the continents every spring and fall. Canada is a nursery to billions of birds of every kind — songbirds, shorebirds, waterfowl, seabirds, raptors, and so on. — most of whom migrate past our borders every fall. The overwhelming majority keep within the Americas for his or her non-breeding seasons. Birds elsewhere within the Americas face the identical acquainted threats to birds in Canada: habitat loss, pesticide poisoning, predation from cats, window collisions, gentle air pollution, plastic air pollution, disturbance by human actions, and so forth. Defending key habitats in Latin America and the Caribbean from these threats is crucial to defending populations of our shared species of birds and people which are resident within the nations to the south. The funding will outcome within the creation of 100 new protected areas in Latin America and the Caribbean defending a minimum of two million hectares.
Conserva Aves is a partnership of organizations decided to guard chook populations in Latin America and the Caribbean together with the Latin American and Caribbean Community of Environmental Funds (REDLAC), BirdLife Americas, Nationwide Audubon, the American Chook Conservancy and now Birds Canada. Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Central America are at present the main focus of this work which is able to embody vital engagement of, and help for, native communities together with Indigenous communities and women-led initiatives.
This help from Canada is a recreation changer for biodiversity on this extremely essential a part of the world. One of many three species of birds that has “Canada” as a part of its official title, the Canada Warbler, spends many of the 12 months within the mid-slopes of the Andes mountains in Colombia, and adjoining nations. Apparently, many Colombians are extra acquainted with this discreet forest species (threatened in Canada) than Canadians are, and have a robust argument to name it the “Colombian Warbler.” However that species underlines the overwhelming must work internationally to guard and restore chook populations in Canada. Conserva Aves is a good step in that path and we applaud the Authorities of Canada and Birds Canada for this announcement and the work that may come. Nature Canada is proud to be a accomplice of Birds Canada on this initiative. Extra to return about that a part of the story.
Ted Cheskey, Naturalist Director at Nature Canada and Patrick Nadeau, President & CEO of Birds Canada
