Audubon Honors Seal River Watershed Alliance with Hemispheric Conservation Award

Through the 2025 Audubon Management Convention in Montréal, Québec, Canada, Audubon celebrated the ability of conservation and neighborhood by honoring excellent particular person leaders and companion organizations making the most important impacts throughout the hemisphere for the good thing about birds, folks, and the planet. The Hemispheric Conservation Award Winner this 12 months was the Seal River Watershed Alliance. The award was given in recognition for his or her work to preserve and completely defend an enormous 12-million-acre panorama of forests, wetlands, lakes, streams, and rivers in Northern Manitoba as an Indigenous Protected and Conserved Space (IPCA).

The Seal River Watershed is among the few remaining intact watersheds of serious measurement on the planet. Not solely is the watershed a biodiversity-rich hotspot, but it surely additionally acts as a pure local weather answer. One of many key elements of their case for everlasting safety is the robust prevalence of birds. Audubon has been supporting and collaborating with the Alliance for a number of years, serving to to showcase the worldwide significance of the area. The watershed gives critically necessary breeding and migratory stop-over habitat for thousands and thousands of birds of a whole lot of species together with the White-crowned Sparrow, Frequent Loon, and Arctic Tern. And the birds usually are not alone. They’re joined by caribou, bears, beluga whales, and numerous different species that each one thrive on this vitally necessary Boreal area in Canada.

Vice chairman of Audubon’s Canada program Dr. Jeff Wells commented, “The Indigenous-led conservation work of the Seal River Watershed Alliance actually has a hemispheric affect. Birds that nest within the watershed migrate south to places throughout the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean, and each Central and South America. Arctic Terns spend winters even additional south in sub-Antarctic waters.” Wells continued, “I can not consider a extra worthy recipient of this award, and I congratulate them on gaining the much-deserved recognition for his or her exhausting work.”

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