Federal, Industry and NGO Biologists Cooperate on Arctic Shorebird Research

Thanks to a ground-breaking March 3, 2003 Memorandum of Understanding(MOU), biologists representing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc., BP Exploration, the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences and the Wildlife Conservation Society are pooling their skills and resources to better understand the impacts of human activity on arctic coastal shorebirds and their predators.

Until now, attempts to verify and quantify any changes in shorebird productivity or predator populations on Alaska