HERO ELEMENT
Restoring Wetlands Through Partnership-Driven Collaboration
- Scientists – informing conservation and management decisions
- Funders – providing the needed dollars to help turn visions into reality
- Project Managers – working on-the-ground, where the work really happens
- Advocates – publicly recommending and supporting wetland restoration
- Decision makers – holding the key to getting projects done
Habitat Delivery
How We Do It
- Collaboration and Coordination – “We provide forums for the sharing of ideas and information to foster innovation and creative approaches to conservation” – with meeting/people photo
- Find Funding – “We secure, increase and find funding that helps our partners realize their vision and goals.”
- Project Tracking – “We have the birds eye view on all active, completed and pending wetland conservation projects around the Bay”
- Share our Story (could link to videos, partner features, or project features) – “We celebrate and share, news, events, employment opportunities and successes of our partnership
We focus our attention where we can make the most difference
- Sediment Supply
- Climate Resilience
- Adaptive Management
- State of our Birds
Get your feet wet! There are many ways to be involved with bird and habitat conservation.
Conservation News Around The Bay
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Q&A with Migratory Bird Joint Venture Coordinator, Justyn Foth
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SFBJV 2023 DC Fly In Recap
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