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LACK OF KNOWLEDGE: MONITORING
Priority Needs List and Tools Matrix
I. Lack of Knowledge
a. Monitoring
- Assistance in developing bat monitoring guidelines and partnerships for monitoring projects.
From: Bat Conservation International, www.batcon.org.
Contact: jkennedy@batcon.org.
- Framework for monitoring the state of the world’s birds through the Global Species Program and the Important Bird Areas Program.
- IUCN Red List authority for birds.
- Web-based forum (http://www.birdlife.org/action/science/species/globally_tbu/gtbu_main.html) seeks inputs regarding the status of species, population estimates and trends, records and distributional information, information on threats, updates on the implementation and effectiveness of conservation actions, and proposals for new actions.
- Development of indicators to measure the degree of implementation of conservation actions, and their effect on the status of species through the Threatened Status Indicator.
From: Birdlife International, www.birdlife.org.
Contact: Dr Stuart Butchart, Global Species Officer, stuart.butchart@birdlife.org.uk, and in the Americas, Kerem Boyla, boyla@birdlife.org.ec.
- Program for Regional and International Shorebird Monitoring (PRISM), designed to coordinate monitoring techniques and facilitate data sharing for shorebirds throughout the Western Hemisphere.
From: Canadian Shorebird Conservation Plan and US Shorebird Conservation Plan, http://wss.wr.usgs.gov/data/document_main.html
Contact: Garry Donaldson, Shorebird Conservation Biologist, Canadian Wildlife Service, garry.donaldson@ec.gc.ca
- Monitoring of aquatic birds (including migratory) in two coastal wetlands of the Region of Atacama (Contact: Jose Andaur, jose.andaur@sag.gob.cl) and in Lampa wetlands (Contact: Charif Tala, charif.tala@sag.gob.cl).
- Monitoring of flamingo in the altoandinos wetlands (Contact: Forest National Corporation regions I and II, www.conaf.cl).
- Neotropical Census of Aquatic Birds, through the Union of Ornithologists of Chile (unorch@entelchile.net).
From: Chile - Servicio Agricola y Ganadero (SAG), www.sag.gob.cl.
Contact: Horatio Merlet, horacio.merlet@sag.gob.cl.
- Evaluation of resident and migratory populations of Anatidos in Colombia.
- Participation in Ducks Unlimited-Latin America and the Caribbean.
From: Colombia - Direccion de Ecosistemas, Ministerio del Medio Ambiente.
Contact: Maria Rivera, mrivera@minambiente.gov.co or jrivera@impsat.net.co, Ph: 0057 1 3323434 ext 411.
- Funding for monitoring projects through Convention on Migratory Species Small Grants Programme.
From: Convention on Migratory Species, www.wcmc.org.uk/cms.
Contact: Lyle Glowka, lglowka@cms.unep.de.
- Guayas Project Lagunas de 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. T: (593 2) 042 2778329
- Monitoring of Southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) and Franciscana (Pontoporia blainvillei) in Argentine waters.
From: Fundación Cethus, http://cethus.tripod.com/.
Contact: Cecilia Gasparrou, cgasparrou@house.com.ar.
- Information on migratory routes used by the different species of sea turtles.
From: Inter-American Sea Turtle Convention, www.amnet.co.cr.
Contact: Marco Solano, citsecret@amnet.co.cr.
- Migration monitoring station in southern boreal forests, with coverage from April to October.
- Operation of four Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship sites in Canadian boreal bird regions.
From: Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory, http://www.lslbo.org/.
Contact: Dr. Richard Knapton, rknapton@telus.net, T: (780) 849-7117, or Stefan Jungking, stefanjungkind@interbaun.com.
- Annual Christmas Bird Count.
- Citizen Science initiatives.
From: National Audubon Society - International Programs, www.audubon.org/local/latin.
Contact: Alejandro GrajalTel, Agrajal@audubon.org, T: 305-371-6399.
- Coordinated Bird Monitoring initiative addresses specific techniques for various species, sample sizes, power and bias estimates and includes links to all bird monitoring techniques and databases in the U. S., Canada and Mexico.
From: Partners in Flight, www.partnersinflight.org.
Contact: Terry Rich, Terry_rich@fws.gov.
- Initiative for the protection of wild areas of Paraguay that focuses on four National Parks and their areas of influence.
From: Paraguay - Proyecto Paraguay Silvestre, http://www.paraguaysilvestre.org.py.
Contact: Cristina Morales, cmorales_py@yahoo.com.
- Monitoring activities in four wetlands.
From: Peru – National Institute of Natural Resources (INRENA), http://www.inrena.gob.pe/
Contact: Dr. Cesar Alvarez Falcon (jefatura@inrena.gob.pe),
- Training courses in monitoring techniques, data analyses, and associated tools.
- Expertise in designing monitoring programs, taking into account objectives defined by participant organizations and standardizing procedures to allow comparisons across larger regions.
From: Point Reyes Bird Observatory, http://www.prbo.org/cms/.
Contact: Steven Latta, slatta@prbo.org.
- Searchable reference of conservation projects in the Neotropics called Eco-Index. Web database includes project descriptions and lessons learned in monitoring and evaluation methodologies.
- Best monitoring and evaluation each month on the Eco-Index 'What's New' page.
From: Rainforest Alliance, www.rainforestalliance.org.
Contact: www.eco-index.org.
- Guidance on inventory, assessment, monitoring and reporting of the status and trends of wetlands in Resolutions VIII.7 and VIII.8.
From: Ramsar Convention, www.ramsar.org.
Contact: Margarita Astrálaga, astralaga@ramsar.org.
- Forum for participants from various countries to exchange information with their counterparts. International Visitor Program can include bringing together wildlife professionals to discuss migratory species monitoring issues.
From: United States Department of State, http://www.state.gov/.
Contact: Essie Wilkes-Scott, T: (202) 619-5270, www.exchanges.state.gov/education/ivp.
- Funding to monitor shorebirds in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
- Support to PhD student’s research on the winter ecology of Buff-breasted Sandpipers in Brazil, including inventories of all shorebirds.
From: United States Fish and Wildlife Service- Alaska, Migratory Bird Management and Endangered Species Offices, http://alaska.fws.gov/.
Contact: Richard Lanctot, richard_lanctot@fws.gov.
- Studies throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and North America, including population census and monitoring; migration; and habitat use, ecosystems, and changes.
From: United States Forest Service, www.fs.fed.us.
Contact: Dr. Bea Van Horne, Washington, DC, T: (703) 605-5285.
- Monitoring guidance, identification of objectives, data uses, analysis, design, and methodology.
- Point Count Database is a Web-based data tool for managing data from surveys monitoring populations (contact: Mark Wimer, T: 301 497-5596).
- North American Breeding Bird Survey (contact: Keith Pardieck, T: 301 497-5843).
- Colonial Waterbird Partnership Monitoring Database (contact: http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/cwb/ or Bruce Peterjohn, T: (301) 497-5841).
From: United States Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/.
Contacts: Bruce Peterjohn, T: 301-497-5841; Jim Nichols, T: 301 497-5660; John Sauer, T: 301-497-5662; Sam Droege, T: 301-497-5840; Keith Pardieck, T: 301-497-5843; Mark Wimer, T: 301-497-5596.
- Information about key shorebird sites in the hemisphere, including research, monitoring and management activities; habitat descriptions; numbers of species; threats.
From: Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, http://www.manomet.org/WHSRN/.
Contact: Heidi Luquer, Luquer@vermontel.net.
- Site-based waterbird census at wetland sites (including sites in many South American countries), conducted by volunteers and country coordinators, called the Neotropical Waterbird Census. Collected data is housed at the International Waterbird Census Database.
From: Wetlands International, www.wetlands.org.
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