The Waterbird Conservation Plan:
- is an international, broad-based voluntary partnership dedicated to conserving waterbirds and their habitats.
- has as a vision that the distribution, diversity, and abundance of populations and habitats of breeding, migratory, and nonbreeding waterbirds are sustained or restored throughout the lands and waters of the Americas.
- provides a means of formalizing alliances to plan and implement waterbird conservation cooperatively with other bird initiatives and other national and regional strategies for species and habitat conservation.
- conducts planning in order to identify partners and opportunities to address long-term waterbird conservation and to provide an overarching hemispheric-scale framework and guide for conserving waterbirds.
- advocates and drives involvement in broader, hemisphere-wide monitoring and conservation; provides an impetus for regional conservation planning; proposes national, state, provincial and other local conservation planning and action; and gives a larger context for local habitat protection.
- identifies priorities, thereby catalyzing and focusing resources and actions, as it is only with collective funding and effort that coordinated conservation of waterbirds can proceed.
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