Agency Details:

PRBO Conservation Science

Mission: PRBO Conservation Science is dedicated to conserving birds, other wildlife and ecosystems through innovative scientific research and outreach.

Description:
Founded as Point Reyes Bird Observatory in 1965, our award-winning bird ecology research, management tools and field training programs are advancing biodiversity conservation on land and at sea. Birds are excellent indicators of environmental health. Relatively inexpensive to monitor and widely distributed, birds serve as ideal proxies for the ecosystems they inhabit.

History:
Background and Accomplishments

PRBO works to reduce the negative impacts of environmental and land use change on birds and their habitats.

PRBO has catalyzed the development of some of the most innovative conservation partnerships and decision support tools in the nation. Major conservation initiatives are achieving more effective outcomes as a result of PRBO's innovative science, training and outreach.

Working in partnership with wildlife and habitat management agencies, nongovernmental organizations, academic institutions, private landowners, fisheries and others, our award-winning science advances win-win solutions to today’s conservation challenges.

PRBO helps to ensure that every dollar invested in conservation yields the most for biodiversity- benefiting our environment, our economy and our communities!

Since our inception, PRBO has provided the scientific basis for:

--Establishing three national marine sanctuaries and an International Biosphere Preserve;
--Designating San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley (CA) ricelands as vital habitat for shorebirds through the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, advancing conservation of these critical regions;
--Establishing the 1993 California law protecting white sharks, a vital top predator in marine ecosystem dynamics;
--Ending gill net fishing, halting catastrophic mortality of seabirds & marine mammals off California’s central coast;
--Establishing new guidelines on commercial fishing for squid in California waters to protect breeding seabirds; and,
--Protecting and restoring Mono Lake (a vital bird breeding and migratory stopover site in the Eastern Sierras).

Contact person: Glena Records, Volunteer Manager, (phone), (email)

Main office number: (707) 781-2555
Office fax number: (707) 765-1685

Address:

3820 Cypress Drive #11 Petaluma, CA 94951 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.prbo.org

Last updated on June 16, 2009