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2022 SJV Awards Program Recipients
We are pleased to announce that the SJV awarded $35,000 in small grants in 2022. Congratulations to our partners at the Prescott College Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies, Terra Peninsular, and Pasadena Audubon Society for your successful applications in support of bird and habitat conservation.
- Published in Awards Program, News
Unintended Consequences: Impacts of Contaminants on Birds
For wildlife rehabilitators, lead poisoning and exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides have become all too common diagnoses for their patients, especially birds of prey. These contaminants permeate the food chain and ecosystems, leading to widespread impacts.
- Published in News
Secrets of the Marsh – What the Birds Don’t Know Might Be Killing Them
Selenium is an increasingly common toxin found within N.A. wetlands due to its accumulation in agricultural drainage water. Researchers are studying the impacts of this contaminant on the endangered Yuma Ridgway’s Rail.
- Published in News
Pharmaceutical Diclofenac found in Wading Bird Eggs
Human and livestock pharmaceuticals are increasingly entering ecosystems as contaminants, leading to a multitude of known and unknown impacts on environmental and wildlife health.
- Published in News
Effects of Dredging on Heavy Metal Concentrations
An increase in heavy metal concentrations was detected in wading bird eggs after dredging activity in the Tóbari Bay lagoon system in southern Sonora, Mexico.
- Published in News
Creativity on the Fly: An Exhibition Inspired by Birds
Ironwood Tree Experience and the Sonoran Joint Venture brought birding, nature, art, and experiential learning programs to communities across Tucson. Events culminated with an art exhibition to celebrate our connections to birds and nature.
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Environmental Education as a Tool for Youth Empowerment
Since 1998, the Environmental Education and Community Leadership Program at the Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies has left a lasting impression on local youth, including past student and current leader, Johana Nieblas.
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Inspiring the Next Generation of Land Stewards
Through the Borderlands Earth Care Youth program, young land stewards work with rock, wood, seeds, hands, and hearts to restore the transnational watersheds they call home.
- Published in News
Call for Proposals: SJV Awards Program
The 2022 funding cycle of the SJV Awards Program is OPEN!
- Published in Awards Program, Funding, News
Restoring Water Flow for the Montezuma Quail
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.
- Published in News