Vision A Pacific Region United for Bird Habitat Conservation
By working together in the Pacific Region, we ensure wild birds thrive in abundant and diverse habitats that are safeguarded for future generations.
Mission Creating the Ideal Environment for Bird Habitat Conservation
Pacific Birds' Service Pillars
To catalyze conservation, Pacific Birds staff advance the mission and vision of the Joint Venture by supporting partners through our service pillars. The service pillars represent the niche of the Joint Venture as a broad, non-regulatory, public-private-Tribal partnership with a focus on collaboratively advancing conservation of habitats that birds, other wildlife, and people rely on.
Accelerate and Deliver Conservation
- Protect, restore, and enhance habitats to support birds and people.
- Mainstream conservation actions and activities that benefit birds, habitats, and people.
- Advance funding opportunities that support conservation priorities.
Build Capacity
- Grow capacity for partnerships to advance bird habitat conservation.
- Increase partner capacity to find, secure, and leverage funding.
Promote Collaboration
- Identify and collaborate to advance the priorities and meet the goals identified by the Pacific Birds Partnership.
- Foster and sustain diverse partnerships.
Advance Knowledge and Planning
- Initiate and facilitate partner-driven conservation planning.
- Support transfer of knowledge and applied science to practitioners
- Connect local planning to regional, national, and international objectives and strategies.
Inform and Inspire
- Inspire action for birds
- Provide partners with opportunities, tools, and resources.
- Communicate collective conservation impact.
The benefits of the Pacific Birds Habitat Joint Venture partnership include:
- increased resources
- collaborative solutions
- better communication
- increased public support
- support for landscape-scale conservation action
Annual Operating Plan
The Pacific Birds FY24 Annual Operating Plan in the U.S. defines the priorities, high-level activities, and spending plan for the Joint Venture’s 2024 fiscal year which runs from October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2024.
This plan is focused on achieving our mission as an inclusive, collaborative, partnership centered around the delivery of bird habitat conservation by advancing the priorities identified and approved by the US Steering Committee and International Management Board.
Conservation Reports
Our Partnership
Pacific Birds is inclusive.
Our partnership includes government agencies, non-government organizations, Tribes, First Nations, private landowners, conservation groups, businesses and individuals. We believe that all partners add value and we help ensure they are not working alone.
Pacific Birds believes that conservation succeeds when partners work together to achieve common goals.
We bring people together who are doing important things for birds. From our three decades as a facilitator and convener, we know that collaboration yields the best results for strategic planning, funding, project delivery, and communications.
Pacific Birds reports conservation successes.
Habitat Joint Ventures across North America showcase projects to decision-makers, funders and the interested public. We report the acres of bird habitats conserved to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Congress on an annual basis.
We want your conservation projects to succeed.
Our staff works for the partnership. We communicate the information that partners need in their work, and we plan at the landscape level to ensure that migratory birds have the habitats they need across flyways. We support organizations and we promote collaboration. We showcase partner projects, knowing that public support is key to the work ahead.
Pacific Birds informs local habitat work, with the flyways in mind.
We help partners connect their on-the-ground projects with the conservation goals of the major bird initiatives. This helps partners secure funding, and it helps birds when their habitat needs are considered across their life-cycles.
Our partnership thrives on engagement and inclusion
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