With funding provided by the SJV’s Awards Program, Borderlands Restoration Network employed a multi-pronged restoration approach to improve degraded habitat through volunteer engagement, partnerships, erosion control, and revegetation.
Congratulations to our partners at Borderlands Restoration Network for winning the $100,000 Connectivity Challenge prize for their Bacanora for Bats: Binational Conservation and Sustainable Agave Spirit project!
Through conducting surveys for Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Audubon Arizona shares with us their unique, first-hand opportunity to observe the BLM’s restoration of River Bend. However, countless other degraded sites need our attention and support.
The Santa Clara River was once designated as one of the most threatened rivers in the U.S. because of the juxtaposition of its environmental and conservation values with threats from urban and industrial development. Now, partners are envisioning a 30 mile-long floodplain corridor to reverse habitat degradation, conserve existing aquatic and riparian habitats, and provide public access for recreation and education.
San Diego County is one of the most biologically diverse parts of our country, but it is also facing significant pressure from increasing development and water scarcity. River Partners has been restoring riparian habitat in San Diego since 2008 to help support the recovery of the biodiversity in the region.
With support in part from the SJV Awards Program, CIES’s monitoring of Scripps’s Murrelets is one of the most robust data-sets of the post-eradication response of affected seabirds, but there’s more work needed to protect these birds.
Invasive, non-native plant species and island ecosystem degradation have affected seabird nesting habitat quality on many of the California Islands, imposing threats to population growth and recovery. Island restoration projects to benefit seabirds and restore breeding habitat are now occurring on 13 of the islands.
Did you know that the Sonoran Joint Venture includes California’s Channel Islands, as well as all of the Pacific islands off the coast of Baja California and Baja California Sur? The SJV was thrilled to attend the California Islands Symposium, which took place in early October in Ventura, California.
Ten years ago, the Sonoran Joint Venture received a Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (NMBCA) grant to fund riparian restoration and research at a private ranch in Sonora, Mexico. Recently, SJV Science Coordinator Carol Beardmore had the opportunity to visit one of the project sites and tag along with researchers running camera traps at Rancho El Aribabi in northern Sonora.
University students from three cities in Sonora, Mexico, are getting hooked on birding, wildlife, and habitat restoration, thanks to Sky Island Alliance, with funding support from the Sonoran Joint Venture.
University students from three cities in Sonora, Mexico, recently got hooked on birding, wildlife, and habitat restoration, thanks to funding support from the Sonoran Joint Venture. It all started with a mid-winter camping trip to the Whitewater Draw State Wildlife Area in southeast Arizona.
River Partners has been working for over 15 years throughout California to restore over 8,000 acres of riparian habitat for the benefit of wildlife and people.