{"id":2403,"date":"2019-01-09T17:08:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T22:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2022-01-31T15:45:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T20:45:36","slug":"coastal-solutions-building-a-bold-new-community-to-address-the-shorebird-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/coastal-solutions-building-a-bold-new-community-to-address-the-shorebird-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Solutions: Building a Bold New Community to Address the Shorebird Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coastal Solutions Fellows Program Launch (English)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/241581619?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-birdpress-transcript accordion\" data-accordion=\"true\" data-allow-all-closed=\"true\"><div class=\"accordion-item\" data-accordion-item=\"true\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"accordion-title\">Show Transcript<\/a><div class=\"accordion-content\" data-tab-content=\"true\">\n<p>NARRATOR: Each year, millions of shorebirds around the globe undertake epic long-distance migrations. Whimbrels, Dunlins, godwits, and others like them migrate thousands of miles, round-trip annually\u2014from their breeding grounds in the Arctic to their wintering grounds along the coast in Latin America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NARRATOR: But the coastal sites these migrations evolved to depend on are rapidly changing. As human development continues to expand, demands on coastal ecosystems for water, food, storm protection, and habitat are increasing. As a result, shorebird populations are declining worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NARRATOR: To balance the needs of natural systems and coastal developments, knowledge and ideas from multiple disciplines and sectors are needed in order to develop new solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NARRATOR: The Coastal Solutions Fellows Program is building a community of early-career leaders, from the academic, private, and non-profit sectors, to work on new approaches to coastal development and ecosystem management. In this new initiative, planners, developers, and scientists will collaborate on crafting solutions to real-life problems facing our coasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NARRATOR: For the next decade, the program will support six fellows per year to focus on threats facing the Pacific Americas Flyway, a network of coastal sites that shorebirds use to rest, feed, and overwinter during their annual migration. Sites like Chilo\u00e9 Island in southern Chile, where threatened species, tourism, development, and aquaculture coexist in complex ways\u2014bringing both opportunities and challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NARRATOR: The Coastal Solutions Fellows program will provide two years of funding and training for young professionals in Latin America, to learn and work with different perspectives and expertise as they co-design projects that test new solutions at coastal sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NARRATOR: Are you working on coastal environments in Latin America? We want you to be part of a new community that breaks down sector silos and supports emerging leaders working on critical ecological and economic issues. Learn how at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solucionescosteras.org\/\">solucionescosteras.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"end-transcript\">End of Transcript<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sidebar-alignright has-lightgray-background-color has-background order-third is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MORE ABOUT THIS TOPIC<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"article-list list-style card-four \"><ul><li class=\"article-item\"><div class=\"article-item-container\"><div class=\"article-item-media content-article\" data-link-to=\"http:\/\/solucionescosteras.org\/en\"><figure class=\"article-item-media-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CoastalSolutions-Impact.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CoastalSolutions-Impact-720x540.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CoastalSolutions-Impact-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CoastalSolutions-Impact.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"\" alt=\"Shorebirds by Julian Garcia Walther\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"article-item-body\"><span class=\"attribution top\"><\/span><a class=\"article-item-link\" href=\"http:\/\/solucionescosteras.org\/en\"><span class=\"article-item-header\">Coastal Solutions Fellows Program Website<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/li><li class=\"article-item\"><div class=\"article-item-container\"><div class=\"article-item-media content-article\" data-link-to=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/fantastic-journeys-shorebirds-are-next-level-athletes\/\"><figure class=\"article-item-media-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ShorebirdAmatomy-Impact.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ShorebirdAmatomy-Impact-720x540.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ShorebirdAmatomy-Impact-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ShorebirdAmatomy-Impact.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"\" alt=\"Bar-tailed Godwits hold the record for longest nonstop flight of any bird: 7,250 miles in 8 days. Illustration by Jillian Ditner.\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"article-item-body\"><span class=\"attribution top\"><\/span><a class=\"article-item-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/fantastic-journeys-shorebirds-are-next-level-athletes\/\"><span class=\"article-item-header\">Fantastic Journeys: Shorebirds Are Next-Level Athletes<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/li><li class=\"article-item\"><div class=\"article-item-container\"><div class=\"article-item-media content-article\" data-link-to=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/04\/27\/opinion\/shorebirds-extinction-climate-change.html\"><figure class=\"article-item-media-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Snipin-Net-Impact.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Snipin-Net-Impact-720x540.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Snipin-Net-Impact-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Snipin-Net-Impact.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"\" alt=\"A common snipe caught in an illegal net. Thousands of shorebirds like this one are entangled this way along the coast of China. (Gerrit Vyn\/Cornell Lab of Ornithology)\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"article-item-body\"><span class=\"attribution top\"><\/span><a class=\"article-item-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/04\/27\/opinion\/shorebirds-extinction-climate-change.html\"><span class=\"article-item-header\">New York Times Op-Ed: Shorebirds, The World\u2019s Greatest Travelers, Face Extinction<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/li><li class=\"article-item\"><div class=\"article-item-container\"><div class=\"article-item-media content-article\" data-link-to=\"https:\/\/academy.allaboutbirds.org\/birds-of-the-yellow-sea\"><figure class=\"article-item-media-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SBSandpiper-YellowSea-Impact-1280x960.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SBSandpiper-YellowSea-Impact-720x540.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SBSandpiper-YellowSea-Impact-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SBSandpiper-YellowSea-Impact-1280x960.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SBSandpiper-YellowSea-Impact-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SBSandpiper-YellowSea-Impact.jpg 1306w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" alt=\"Spoon-billed Sandpiper from video, Birds of the Yellow Sea\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"article-item-body\"><span class=\"attribution top\"><\/span><a class=\"article-item-link\" href=\"https:\/\/academy.allaboutbirds.org\/birds-of-the-yellow-sea\"><span class=\"article-item-header\">Birds of the Yellow Sea <\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year, millions of shorebirds undertake epic migrations to and from the Arctic and Latin America, but as human development expands, coastal habitats are vanishing. Shorebird populations are plummeting toward catastrophe, their declines representing the world\u2019s number one conservation crisis facing birds today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Coastal Solutions Fellows Program brings together early-career professionals in Latin America, including biologists, planners, and architects, to craft solutions for ecosystem management and coastal development. Over the course of six years, the program will fund 30 emerging leaders to work across sectors to develop conservation projects and put them into action at key sites that shorebirds need to rest, feed, and overwinter during their journeys across the Pacific Americas Flyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Coastal Solutions program is made possible thanks to support from individual donors and the David &amp; Lucile Packard Foundation, which will provide matching funds if the Cornell Lab can raise $2.5 million for this groundbreaking initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-red-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/give.birds.cornell.edu\/page\/87895\/donate\/1?ea.tracking.id=WXXXXX01C\">Donate to Help<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div 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