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Grasslands, Aridlands, and Forests

We improve habitat quality on privately managed and public lands.
Burrowing Owls. Photo: Sandrine Biziaux Scherson/±¬ÁϹ«Éç Photography Awards

Working on working lands.

Working lands represent one of the best hopes for conservation. These parcels of forests, ranches, and farms add up to roughly a billion acres—or about half the land in the entire Lower 48 states. ±¬ÁϹ«Éç collaborates with landowners, land managers, government agencies, and private industry across the hemisphere to increase the quality of habitat on privately managed lands to benefit 20 flagship bird species. ±¬ÁϹ«Éç also helps landowners and land managers apply bird-friendly practices on their lands.

Our Areas of Focus

Public Lands Conservation Ranching Natural Climate Solutions Regenerative Agriculture Private Lands
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Protecting our wild heritage.
Public Lands
Protecting our wild heritage across the hemisphere on lands managed for everyone.
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Birds That Need Public Lands

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Greater Sage-Grouse
Pheasants and Grouse
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Spectacled Eider
Ducks and Geese
Grasslands, Aridlands, and Forests
±¬ÁϹ«Éç Conservation Ranching
To combat the negative effects of grassland degradations—and to keep grass on the landscape—±¬ÁϹ«Éç has developed the Conservation Ranching Initiative. This market-based conservation approach offers incentives for good grassland stewardship through a certification label on beef products.
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Silvopasture Across the Hemisphere

±¬ÁϹ«Éç aims to bring bird-friendly practices to 4.7 million hectares of productive lands in Latin America and the Caribbean, increasing habitat and connectivity across landscapes. This will boost the overwinter survival rate of migratory birds while increasing the abundance of local wildlife, including endemic and threatened birds.
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±¬ÁϹ«Éç Names Ashly Steinke its Grassland Ecologist for Wisconsin
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±¬ÁϹ«Éç Names Krysten Zummo its Grassland Ecologist for Minnesota
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Birds That Depend on Grasslands
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Greater Sage-Grouse
Pheasants and Grouse
Golden Eagle
Hawks and Eagles
Sagebrush Sparrow
New World Sparrows
Sage Thrasher
Mockingbirds and Thrashers
Burrowing Owl
Owls
Brewer's Sparrow
New World Sparrows
Gray Flycatcher
Tyrant Flycatchers