This came through the Bird Conservation Alliance list-serve. I
apologize for any cross-listings.

Adam Sedgley
adams at seattleaudubon.org

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From: bcalist-bounces at lists.abcbirds.org
[mailto:bcalist-bounces at lists.abcbirds.org] On Behalf Of Alicia King
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:58 PM
To: bcalist at lists.abcbirds.org
Subject: [BCAlist] ACTION REQUESTED



Dear BCA members:



We need your organizations involvement in making sure the NMBCA is
reauthorized at higher funding levels. Please, if you have not done so
already, contact your House and Senate representatives to ask them to
support the bipartisan legislation S. 3490 in the Senate and H.R.
5756, in the House before they recess for the November elections. Both
bills reauthorize the existing NMBCA, but at significantly higher levels
to multiply the successes of the NMBCA.



It is easy to take action:



* to ask your House Representative to co-sponsor H.S. 5756 go to
http://www.actforsongbirds.org.



* to ask your Senators to co-sponsor go to
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5400/t/2205/p/dia/action/public/?act
ion_KEY=139



It is important that organizations and people who care about birds have
a voice - showing our support for the NMBCA is one way we can act
together to benefit birds. Within the next week or so each of your
organizations should receive a packet of Act for Songbirds campaign
support tools to help you take this campaign to your members,
birdwatchers and the public. These tools will also be available on the
BCA Website and include a PowerPoint presentation, articles,
photographs, letters to editors, fact sheet, and more. Please share this
with your members and anyone you know who enjoys birds.



Thanks in advance for making sure we let folks know how important
reauthorizing and increasing the funding for the NMBCA is for the
conservation of Neotropical migratory birds!



Alicia







Alicia Frances King

Director, Bird Conservation Alliance

American Bird Conservancy

1731 Connecticut Ave. NW

Washington, DC 20009

office: 202-234-7181, ex 201

cell: 202-255-5816

http://www.birdconservationalliance
<https://www.birdconservationalliance.org/> .org



The Act for Songbirds Campaign. The Neotropical Migratory Bird
Conservation Act (NMBCA) of 2000, established a matching grants program
that supports bird conservation in the US, Canada, Latin America, and
the Caribbean. These projects promote and foster the long- term
conservation of neotropical migratory birds and their habitats. However,
each year, grant requests far exceed the program's available funding.
NMBCA has a proven record of making a difference for neotropical
migratory birds, and the reauthorization and appropriated funding should
be significantly increased.



SAVE the DATE!: BCA Fall Meeting November 12, 2008
Migration Matters, Building Support for Migratory Bird Conservation at
The Nature Conservancy World Headquarters in Arlington, VA.



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