West Virginia Important Bird Areas
The West Virginia Important Bird Areas (IBA) program aims
to identify and conserve sites throughout the state that contain significant
habitats for breeding, wintering and migrating birds. Sites are selected as
Important Bird Areas by using scientifically defensible, standardized criteria.
By focusing more attention on the most essential and vulnerable areas the WV IBA
Program will help to promote proactive habitat conservation, while at the
same time playing an integral part in other national efforts such as Partners in
Flight and the North American Bird Conservation Initiative. The information
gathered in the process of identifying IBA's will guide land use planning and
resource management decisions, so that birds and their habitat needs will be
conserved.
Critical to the success of the WV IBA program is the
participation of many partner organizations, professional ornithologists,
birders, students and volunteers. Only through the building of a strong network
of grassroots support, in a participatory process, will the program be
successful. Click here for more information on West Virginia's IBA Program.
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