Raise Awareness for Important Bird Areas (IBA)

The Important Bird Areas Program (IBA) is a global effort to identify and conserve areas that are vital to birds by working with Audubon chapters, landowners, public agencies, community groups, and other non-profits. I have been concentrating on the Great Plains Region. I started a letter writing campaign with a local Girl Scout Troop...we are writing to Senator Kent Conrad and Senator John Hoeven both from North Dakota. We are asking the senators for their support in changing laws and policies that would benefit the birds of concern at IBA's and also lobby for land acquisition funds for an IBA where land acquisition is underway. You can write these Senators with your concerns. The loss of grasslands in any region affects birds all over the U.S.

http://www.hoeven.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-the-senator
http://www.conrad.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm