Meetings & Webinars

Location: Conservation International, 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500, Arlington, VA 22202 (view map), near the Crystal City Metro Station in the Washington DC area.

9:30 a.m. - Opening Remarks: Steve Holmer, Director, Bird Conservation Alliance

9:35 a.m. - Keynote:Tom Strickland, Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks, U.S. Department of the Interior

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Safeguarding the Rarest Species

• Endangered Species Act Reform – Michael Bean, U.S. Department of the Interior
• The Alliance for Zero Extinction and Convention on Biological Diversity– Benjamin Skolnik, American Bird Conservancy
  
  
• Michael McGreevy - Conservation International

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11:00 a.m. - Break

11:10 a.m. - Keynote: George Fenwick, Developing and Implementing a National Bird Conservation Strategy

Eliminating Threats: Collisions

• Establishing Bird Friendly Planning Codes in San Francisco – AnMarie Rodgers, San Francisco City Government
  
  
• Advances in Bird Safe Windows– Christine Sheppard, American Bird Conservancy
  

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1:00 p.m. - LUNCH

1:30 p.m. - Keynote:Bird Conservation in Haiti– Philippe Bayard, Haiti Audubon

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Conserving Habitats

• Keeping Forests as Forests– Jad Daley, Trust for Public Lands
  
  
• Refuges at Risk: Protecting the Heart of the Pacific Flyway– Ani Kame'enui, Oregon Wild
  

2:45 p.m. - BREAK

3:00 Eliminating Threats

• Gulf Oil Spill– Tom Bancroft, National Audubon Society
  
  
• Petition to Eliminate Lead Contamination in Wildlife, Michael Fry, American Bird Conservancy
  
  
• Birds and Biofuels: Mitigating Bird Impacts from Biofuel Monocultures, Mike Parr, American Bird Conservancy
  

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4:30 Closing Remarks

For more information please contact Steve Holmer, Director, The Bird Conservation Alliance, 202/234-7181 ext. 216