Beach steward at beach

Human Disturbance Reduction Toolkit/Conjunto de herramientas para la reducción de las perturbaciones humanas

Human Disturbance Reduction Toolkit Virginia Tech, Audubon, Manomet, and USFWS developed an online, accessible toolkit to highlight the best practices, case studies, and lessons learned from the transdisciplinary human disturbance project. The goal of the toolkit is to provide managers, practitioners, and conservation professionals with the resources, knowledge, and expertise to tackle human disturbance head-on through empirically tested social science …

A whimbrel spotted during the Global Shorebird Count. Jean Carlos Vega

Evaluating Disturbance to Migrating and Overwintering Shorebirds in the Caribbean

To date, little is known about the extent and management of human disturbance to shorebirds in the Caribbean. Thanks to funding from Environment and Climate Change Canada, BirdsCaribbean and Virginia Tech recently partnered to survey Caribbean Waterbird Census (CWC) monitors’ experiences with disturbance at the wetland sites they monitor. CWC monitors first provided feedback via a focus group to share …