Division of Bird Habitat Conservation

Birdscapes: News from International Habitat Conservation Partnerships

Editors' Page

Are your passports current? We’re taking you on a trip, albeit a virtual one, to the Eastern Hemisphere via Birdscapes.

You’re probably familiar with the expression “Think outside the box.” We’re taking it one step further: “Think outside the hemisphere.” We thought you might enjoy discovering how your fellow conservationists “across the pond” contend with the same issues you do. The habitats and the species may be different, but your colleagues face familiar challenges: habitat loss and degradation, invasive species, contaminants, and lack of public awareness that land stewardship is important and needed. We hope that the insights gained in perusing the articles prove useful to you in your conservation work at home and, perhaps, lead to exciting, new global partnerships to conserve the natural resources we all care about—birds. How do you say “Sister Project” in Fijian? Hebrew? Zulu?

Rather than give you a preview of what’s to come in the following pages as we usually do, we’re going to let you explore this special edition on your own. The map on the next two pages shows your destinations. We hope you have a rewarding journey.

Notice: We regret to inform you that due to budget constraints we are unable to publish the winter 2005 issue of Birdscapes, and the fate of the spring-summer 2005 issue is uncertain at this time. We will post a publishing update on the following Web site in January 2005: http://library.fws.gov/Birscapes/birdindex.htm. Thank you for your patience and understanding.