Brochure printing and local guide training to enhance the quality of birding experience in the Santa Cruz and San Pedro Rivers
Project Description This project will promote environmental and economic stability in the Santa Cruz watershed by implementing conservation strategies that address both ecological and community issues. In 2000 the Sonoran Institute established the Community Conservation Center (CCC) of the Santa Cruz River in San Lázaro, Sonora. The CCC functions as a field station and community
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Arizona/Sonora bird migration monitoring network
Project Description This project is a coordinated series of six sites (three mountain and three lowland, four in Arizona and two in Sonora) selected to measure and monitor bird migration across a broad front of southeastern Arizona and northern Sonora through the use of constant effort mist netting. The six sites selected comprise a variety
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Villa Verde restoration site monitoring, Sonora, Mexico
Project Description Much of the conservation work in the San Pedro Watershed of Arizona stops at the U.S. border, and areas located just a few miles south remain almost unknown. Villa Verde, a main tributary to the Upper San Pedro River, is located approximately 25 km southeast of the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area
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Capacity Building for Avian Monitoring and Conservation in Baja, California, Mexico
Project Description PRBO Conservation Science, with partners from the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE) and Terra Peninsular, A.C., and support from the Sonoran Joint Venture, have been expanding collaborative, bi-national bird studies, training and monitoring programs, and conservation efforts in northwestern Baja California, with an emphasis on the seriously
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