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COORDINATION/PARTNERSHIPS: ESTABLISH CENTER FOR INFORMATION SHARING

Priority Needs List and Tools Matrix

V. Coordination/Partnerships
a. Establish Center for Information Sharing

• BirdLife has one of the most extensive libraries on birds and wildlife in Latin America. Its central libraries in Cambridge, UK, and Quito, Ecuador are also linked to the resources of the 20 partner NGOs in 19 countries in the Americas.
  From: Birdlife International, www.birdlife.org.
  Contact: Rob Clay, rob@guyra.org.py.

• Projects to establish centers for information sharing are potentially fundable in part on an ad hoc basis through the CMS Secretariat.
  From: Convention on Migratory Species, www.wcmc.org.uk/cms.
  Contact: Lyle Glowka, lglowka@cms.unep.de

• The Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation plans to establish a comprehensive library on western boreal bird monitoring and a research database for sharing.
  From: Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory, http://www.lslbo.org/.
  Contact: Jul Wojnowski, Jul.Wojnowski@lslbo.org, T: (780) 849-7117

• NAS offers the Important Bird Areas database (contact: E-Bird, www.ebird.org) as well as the Birdsource (contact: www.birdsource.org).
  From: National Audubon Society - International Programs, www.audubon.org/local/latin.
  Contact: Alejandro GrajalTel, Agrajal@audubon.org, T: 305-371-6399

• PIF partners, such as the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, have experience in centers for information sharing.
  From: Partners in Flight, www.partnersinflight.org.
  Contact: Terry Rich, Terry_rich@fws.gov

• RA can establish a portal linked from the Eco-Index (www.eco-index.org).
  From: Rainforest Alliance, www.rainforestalliance.org.
  Contact: Diane Jukofsky, djukofsky@ra.org

• USFS develops recreation and visitor information centers, including site planning, landscape design, construction supervision, administration, display design, and staffing.
  • International Programs have provided international assistance for information centers.
  From: United States Forest Service, www.fs.fed.us.
  Contact: Gail Van der Bie,T: 202-205-1756

• The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Bird Conservation Node was established as a clearinghouse for electronic information relevant to bird conservation, such as bird populations, bird-habitat relationships, and similar information (http://mbirdims.fws.gov/nbii/).
  From: United States Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/.
  Contact: Bruce Peterjohn, T: (301) 497-5841

• The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) has expertise in disseminating biological information and establishment of information sharing centers. It is a key contributor to the development of distributed electronic networks for international level data sharing. Through its Bird Conservation Node, NBII has been working at the national level to coordinate information sharing activities on migratory birds. Internationally, it plays a prominent role in biodiversity information networks such as the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network, the North American Biodiversity Information Network, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and Clearing-House Mechanism (CHM) of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
  From: United States Geological Survey Bird Conservation Node, http://www.nbii.gov.
  Contact: Elizabeth Martin, elizabeth_martin@usgs.gov

• The WHSRN web site can be used to build additional links to other agencies and partners involved in shorebird conservation (contact WHSRN@manomet.org).
• The International Shorebird Survey from the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences offers the largest single database on shorebird migration. ISS monitoring of strategic staging sites provides information about how different species depend on certain wetlands and flyways and provides the underpinnings for the implementation of shorebird management techniques.
  From: Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, http://www.manomet.org/WHSRN/.
  Contact: Heidi Luquer, Luquer@vermontel.net.