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WCC 2020 Res 063 - Activity Report

Submitted by kathy.abusow_1 on Fri, 06/16/2023 - 04:39
General Information
Urgent call to share and use primary biodiversity in situ data
IUCN Constituent: 
Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Inc.
IUCN Constituent type: 
IUCN Member
Period covered: 
2022
Geographic scope: 
North America and the Caribbean
Country/Territory: 
Canada
In implementing this Resolution your organization has worked/consulted with...
IUCN Members: 
US Department of the Interior (Fish and Wildlife Service) ( FWS ) / United States of America
IUCN Commissions: 
No Commissions are/have been involved
IUCN Secretariat: 
No
Other non-IUCN related organisations: 
Boreal Avian Modelling (BAM) Project, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Eastern Habitat Joint Venture, American Bird Conservancy, NCASI, University of Alberta, Laval University, Natural Resources Canada/Canadian Forest Service, The Forestland Group, Resolute Forestry Products, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Quebec SFI Implem
Implementation
Indicate and briefly describe any actions that have been carried out to implement this Resolution: 
ActionDescriptionStatus
Scientific/technical activitiesSFI is engaging with the Boreal Avian Modelling (BAM) Project to evaluate the resilience of SFI managed forests and their conservation value for birds under potential future climate regimes. The project will deliver comprehensive descriptions of actual and potential management practices consistent with SFI standards that can be related to changes in forest structure. The impact of past and present forest management on bird populations in SFI-certified vs. non-certified forests will also be evaluated. The project will simulate the potential impact of future forest management practices on bird populations in SFI-certified vs. non-certified forests under potential climate change scenarios.On-going
Please report on the result /achievement of the actions taken: 
This SFI grant helped catalyze a large effort to obtain and integrate avian point count data from Eastern Canada and some adjoining states. This work was financed in part by a contract with Environment and Climate Change Canada entitled “Augmenting avian data sets to support species distribution and abundance modelling in eastern Canada”. This contract supported migration of BAM datasets to WildTrax, an online, open-source platform that efficiently and effectively handles acoustic and other data collected by environmental sensors. The migration project ended in September 2022. Data from 40 projects in Eastern Canada were uploaded to WildTrax which included 667,398 individual species detections were recorded at 137,977 unique survey locations. In addition, they added 24 new avian bird point count data sets for Eastern North America and provided guidance on future data providers to upload data into standardized format that is compatible with BAM datasets.
What challenges have you encountered in implementing this Resolution and what measures have you taken to overcome them?: 
NA
Identify and briefly describe what future actions are planned for the implementation of this Resolution: 
Additional Information
External link(s): 
BAM WildTrax Bird Data