Après une grosse chute de la population sauvage de pie-grièches migratrices de l'Est dans les années 1990, Environnement Canada a invité Préservation de la faune Canada à diriger les efforts de rétablissement multi-partenaires en 2003. Depuis, la taille de la population sauvage a fluctué. Des études ont démontré que, bien que les efforts de rétablissement aient empêché l'espèce de disparaître du Canada, des travaux supplémentaires sont nécessaires pour identifier et traiter les causes du déclin de l'espèce.
WPC and partners have been involved in conservation efforts for the Eastern Loggerhead Shrike for over 20 years. Although our efforts have maintained the breeding population in Ontario, continued range-wide collaboration is needed to ensure the future of this migratory bird species. At the end of January, WPC staff participated in the last of a series of workshops planning conservation actions for Eastern Loggerhead Shrikes across their North American range.
Workshop participants at Toronto Zoo
Workshop participants at Nashville Zoo
Previous workshops involved defining success for the Eastern Loggerhead Shrike in the creation of a vision statement, producing a full-annual cycle model for the species across its breeding and overwintering range, and conducting a population viability analysis to better understand how the Eastern Loggerhead Shrike population may change over the next decade.
This time around, a dedicated team of experts, decision-makers, and on-the-ground implementers worked together for three days to hammer out the nitty-gritty details of how to conserve this amazing bird. This involved information-sharing, identifying and prioritizing threats in breeding and overwintering grounds, and drafting action plans for addressing these threats over the next ten years.
With participants in both the U.S. and Canada, this final workshop involved two in-person working groups hosted at Toronto Zoo in Ontario, and at the Nashville Zoo in Tennessee as well as participants joining in online, all facilitated by the CPSG (Conservation Planning Specialist Group).
The results of this workshop will bring all the threads together to develop an integrated binational conservation plan for Eastern Loggerhead Shrikes that addresses their conservation needs across their range. It’s been a journey to get to here, but seeing everyone around the table working towards our common goal of Loggerhead Shrike conservation was both inspiring and energizing, and we’re looking forward to turning all this planning into action!
Enormous gratitude goes out to all the workshop participants, our hosts, the workshop facilitators, and the organizing team from African Lion Safari, American Bird Conservancy, Queens University, Institut Wilder and WPC.
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