Continentally Important Proposals

As one of their top goals over the next five years, the Trinational Committee of the North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI) is seeking to fund up to five continentally important Trinational Projects to advance bird conservation efforts in Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The Committee envisions ambitious proposals that demonstrate the critical importance of international partnerships to achieve significant accomplishments for migratory bird conservation.

For more information, see the Continentally Important Proposals (CIP): An Introduction. For information on specific regions, download the following pdf documents:

Yucatan CIP Summary
Marismas Nacionales CIP Summary
Laguna Madre CIP Summary
Chihuahua/Janos Grasslands CIP Summary
Chiapas CIP Summary

Building from priority bird regions in Mexico, NABCI Tri-national Committee members are focused on five sites that represent critical areas for priority bird species that migrate to the United States and Canada. The five sites include: Laguna Madre, Marismas Nacionales, El Triumfo-Chiapas, Yucatan, and Janos Grasslands. Information from long-term migration monitoring studies has been used to link these Mexican sites with sites in the United States and Canada that support the priority species. Efforts are now underway to bring together the regional experts in the three countries to expand the current Mexican funding proposals to encompass activities that benefit these priority birds throughout their migratory pathways in North America.

Pete Blancher, Environment Canada, developed linkage maps that demonstrate, on a broad scale, the U.S. and Canadian breeding area linkages for priority migratory birds from the five Mexican sites. (See below links to MS Word files that contain the maps)

Marismas Nationales Bird Linkage Map
Laguna Madre Bird Linkage Map
Chihuahua/Janos Grasslands Bird Linkage Map
El Triumfo-Chiapas Bird Linkage Map
Yucatan Bird Linkage Map

In addition, spreadsheets were developed that show which Bird Conservation Regions and Joint Ventures in the U.S. and Canada are critical to the survival of the priority species. (See below links to Excel Spreadsheet files)

Marismas Spreadsheet
Laguna Madre Spreadsheet
Chihuahua/Janos Grasslands Spreadsheet
El Triumfo-Chiapas Spreadsheet
Yucatan Spreadsheet

For more information, contact any of the Trinational NABCI Committee members or national NABCI Coordinators.