Submitted by
kathy.abusow_1
on Fri, 06/16/2023 - 04:39
General Information
Resolution
49202
IUCN Constituent
Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Inc.
IUCN Constituent type
IUCN Member organisation
Period covered
Geographic scope
North America and the Caribbean
Country/Territory
Canada
Actors involved in implementing this Resolution:
IUCN Members
US Department of the Interior (Fish and Wildlife Service) ( 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
II. Implementation
Activities carried out to implement this Resolution
Activity
Scientific/technical activities
Description and results/achievements of activities:
SFI 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.
Status
On-going
Describe any challenges encountered in implementing this Resolution and the measures taken
NA
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.
III. Additional Information
External link(s)
Report status
Published
Constituent type
IUCN Member