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| A Focus on Diversity: Changing the Face of American Birding Diversity in Birding Action Plans The first two Focus on Diversity Conference resulted in dozens of bird outreach programs to reach new audiences. Help us continue such efforts to build birding and bird conservation! |
| Expand Light Rail to Refuge Program to new audiences and organizations Create a Birding activity at annual winter family event Engage private and parochial high schools with natural birding experience Increase participation of Latino students in immersion summer camp Partner with regional social workers to bring "healing power of nature" to families in crisis Create "parallel bird ed. programs - youth & novice adults" / Write birding column for local papers "Teacher Training Sessions" with MN WILD and PLT Programs Engage local tribal members in birdwatching activities by utilizing tribal young adults as mentors Initiate language-based connections between Lakota and the park Partner with multicultural center in LaCrosse for birding trip to refuge "It's YOURS TOO Day" promotion campaign via news media to encourage public visitation to NWRS "Birding exchange program" between local youth and peers in Colombia Establish Wisconsin Young Birders Club Translate Indiana Young Birders Club Newsletter to Spanish Create videos using local naturalists to promote outdoor recreation and local wildlife diversity Host a "Family Birding and Nature Day" at East Park Reservoir in Spring 2012 Teen "Explorers Club" will mentor younger children on bird walks Engage South African youth in conservation through bird watching activities Get a diverse group of students involved with tree planting at local NWR Engage Latino population in conservation along Kittatinny Ridge IBA Include Latino community from Hoqiuam, WA in programs and activities Make the NWRS more "accessible" and "user friendly", including for Spanish-speaking visitors Recruit more fellowship projects that address birding activities Develop Spanish-language component of our real-time nature observation website Connect successful programs to increase diversity & employ relevant mentors Urban Bird Treaty to expand education outreach to diverse audiences Promote birding at Haverford Township Nature Center (once it opens) Invite low socio-economic families to birdwalks in local parks Convene a Congress of Enviro. Clubs from area schools for Phenological Monitoring Project Increase Hispanic visitorship at Forsythe NWR Develop relationship with local black birders and Wissahickon BGC for birding opportunities |
| This Focus on Diversity Conference is being made possible through the support of... American Birding Association Black Swamp Bird Observatory Clemson University Cornell Lab of Ornithology Eagle Optics Friends of Laguna Atascosa NWR Flying WIld Mark Garland The Doug and Leshon Gray Conservation Initiative Great Birding Projects Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Kaufman Field Guides Leica Sport Optics Maryland Coastal Bays Program McAllen Convention and Visitors Bureau National Audubon Society Opticron Rockjumper Birding Tours Wendy Paulson Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival Wild Bird Centers of America Wild Birds Unlimited Carl Zeiss Sport Optics |
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| Bringing the joy AND BENEFITS of birding to others - to promote their healthy development and bird conservation. |