Habitat is Hope: Conservation Across Birds' Migration Journey | ABC Webinar
Join American Bird Conservancy (ABC) for an exciting webinar to travel through key habitats that migratory birds, like the Wood Thrush, rely on as they journey north for spring migration.
Our first stop will be the wintering grounds in places like Nicaragua and Honduras, where ABC and partners are working with farmers to improve bird habitat in shade-grown coffee and cacao farms as well as other types of working lands. Then we'll go to the breeding grounds in places like Appalachia, as we discuss some of our forestry work to support these birds and their nesting habitats. Finally, we'll explore how technology is connecting these two places and enabling us to track the paths of migratory birds to inform our conservation efforts.
Please consider supporting ABC's Habitat is Hope 1:1 match at abcbirds.org/HabitatHope
Presentations:
- 00:00:00 - Introduction by Jordan Rutter, Director of Communications, American Bird Conservancy (ABC)
- 00:6:15 - Marci Eggers
- 00:14:14 -Andres Anchondo
- 00:25:02 - Liz Brewer
- 00:34:45 - Adam Smith
- 00:47:01 - Q&A
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I am a vegan for 16 years. I am helping out the wildlife.
Much deforestation is to accommodate animal agriculture, either for grazing land or to grow feed crops. Eating plant-based is one of the most impactful things you can do to save the birds and the planet.
@marianwhit
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Plant agriculture destroys virtually all the ecology in a place. Animal agriculture uses a lot of land that is not suitable for plant agriculture, and the presence of large animals (megafauna) on land is more natural (from an evolutionary and ecological perspective) than plant agriculture. Animals fertilize and make healthy soil, and eliminating the economic incentive to grow them means no food for plants (except from the chemical plants). I know this seems like an easy answer, but it is not right to say "it is the fault of food animals and the people who eat them" when we evolved as part of the ecology to do so. We are having this kind of conversation because we repeatedly fail to acknowledge that there are too many people, the per capita consumption (of everything, not just food) is too high, and we cannot hope to delude ourselves that plant based is "the answer" without developing far more ecological ways of producing enough plants. We seem to want one thing we can do so we can virtue signal our way into continuing to live the same "locked in" way that w e live now. That is not enough. There are SO many things that can be done to help, and it will be up to each family to choose as many ways, as soon as possible, to combat ecological degradation, and reduce demand for the most harmful (and unnatural) products...such as petroleum. If animals were the problem, we would have all died when our whole transportation economy was based on horses for transportation, lol. Make no mistake, all forms of agriculture have major impacts.
@debbiewall2160
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@@marianwhit Almost 80% of our farming land is devoted to animal agriculture, either for grazing or growing feed crops, yet provides less than 20% of our calories and less than 40% of our protein. If we ate plants directly, we could free up much of that land for re-wilding and grow crops for human consumption in a sustainable manner.