Tool Matrix Contributors Lack of Knowledge: Monitoring Inventory of Important Sites Capacity Building and Training Legislation to Foster Conservation Habitat: Map Sites for Each Country Protection of Smaller Areas Develop MOU with Private Landowners, Government, and NGOs Establish Incentives for Private Landowners Public Awareness: Program on Conservation and Sustainable Use Education Programs That Embrace Local Wildlife Electronic Information Exchange Administration: Develop Regional Associations for Wildlife Agencies to Share Information Support to Implement Administration/Training of Personnel Regional Bird Banding Center Coordination/Partnerships: Establish Center for Information Sharing National Plan for Migratory Species Conservation Joint Planning of Activities Under International Conventions Threats: Land Use Planning and Monitoring Involvement in Communities Acquisition of More Habitat Collaboration on Species with Expanding Ranges and Behaving as Invasives	HABITAT: PROTECTION FOR SMALLER AREAS Priority Needs List and Tools Matrix II. Habitat b. Protection of Smaller Areas Alliance for Zero Extinction, a project involving 16 NGOs, covers all terrestrial taxa, but emphasizes birds which occur at single sites and are listed on the IUCN RedList as Critically Endangered or Endangered. A preliminary list includes approximately 90 AZE sites for birds in this Hemisphere, with concentrations in Mexico, the Caribbean, northern and central Andes, and the Atlantic forest of Brazil. Each site is being analyzed for status, threats, and needs, and active conservation programs are underway for many of them. Many AZE sites are relatively small and essential for preservation of biodiversity in combination with large-landscape level projects. From: American Bird Conservancy, www.abcbirds.org. Contact: David Pashley, dpashley@abcbirds.org. BCI and partners work to protect bat habitat along migratory corridors and important caves and roosts in Mexico, U.S. and Latin America. From: Bat Conservation International, www.batcon.org. Contact: Carrie Robertson, crobertson@batcon.org. While Important Bird Areas are recognized as a global conservation figure and can thus help facilitate the planning and creation of protected areas. IBAs have no upper or lower size limit. They can encapsulate both smaller areas, and networks of dispersed habitat patches. From: Birdlife International, www.birdlife.org. Contact: Rob Clay, rob@guyra.org.py. A regulation for the creation of protected private wild areas is being implemented through the National Commission of the Environment (CONAMA). From: Chile - Servicio Agricola y Ganadero (SAG), www.sag.gob.cl. Contact: www.conama.cl. Comprehensive Conservation Planning is a tool for strategic conservation management planning in parks and protected areas, adhering to the CBSG principles of stakeholder inclusion, participatory process and rapid production of a product. Originally developed to assist with conservation planning for National Wildlife Refuges, CCPs have been modified and expanded to meet similar needs of other agencies and land-managers. From: Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (IUCN/SSC), www.cbsg.org. Contact: Onnie Byers, onnie@cbsg.org. CMS Small Grants Programme can fund protection of smaller areas. From: Convention on Migratory Species, www.wcmc.org.uk/cms. Contact: Lyle Glowka, lglowka@cms.unep.de. Guayas Project Ecuasal Benito Hase. From: Ecuador - Unidad de Vida Silvestre y Ecosistemas Frágiles, Dirección de Biodiversidad y Areas Protegidas, Ministerio del Ambiente, www.ambiente.gov.ec. Contact: Gabriela Montoya, gmontoya@ambiente.gov.ec. Fundación Cethus works with other non-government and government organizations to set up conservation areas for cetacean species at local levels. From: Fundación Cethus, http://cethus.tripod.com/. Contact: Cecilia Gasparrou, cgasparrou@house.com.ar. PIF partners are involved in protection at many levels, from Department of Defense to endangered species, to lower nesting sites for rare or collectible species. From: Partners in Flight, www.partnersinflight.org. Contact: Terry Rich, Terry_rich@fws.gov. There are 1317 Ramsar sites world wide, with 10% in the Neotropics. Resolution VIII.11 gives guidance for identifying and designating underrepresented wetland types as Wetlands of International Importance. Resolution VIII.10 covers improving implementation of the Strategic Framework and Vision for Ramsar sites. Resolution VIII.38 covers waterbird population estimates. From: Ramsar Convention, www.ramsar.org. Contact: Margarita Astrálaga, astralaga@ramsar.org. USFS identifies special habitats, including those needed by species classified as Endangered or Threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Specific protection requirements are developed and applied in species habitats. International Programs assist other countries on protection area management. From: United States Forest Service, www.fs.fed.us. Contact: Marc Bosch, National Forest System, T: 202-205-1220. Scientific Criteria is the basis for WHSRN’s 57 shorebird sites that are designated as critically important stop-over areas (see http://www.manomet.org/WHSRN/.) From: Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, http://www.manomet.org/WHSRN/. Contact: Heidi Luquer, Luquer@vermontel.net. Neotropical Waterbird Census uses volunteers to census neotropical waterbirds and build interest within local communities for wetland conservation and sustainable use. Global Peatland Initiative focuses on policy development, inter-sectoral reconciliation and cooperation (partnership building), peatland inventory work and peatland management and restoration. From: Wetlands International, www.wetlands.org. Contact: Daniel Blanco, dblanco@wamani.apc.org.
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