The American Bird Conservancy (ABC) – established in 1994 – is focused on the conservation of wild birds and their habitats across the nation. Whenever there is any kind of threat to birds, the ABC is on the case. In this capacity it is able to advance the whole concept of bird conservation. The ABC also encourages individuals and groups to work with it, “regardless of their political, economic, or social point of view [through] innovative, fair solutions to difficult issues.”
The ABC works for the following principal causes: the development and maintenance of a reserve system for the 82 bird-triggered Alliance for Zero Extinction sites and the sites for declining birds in the Western Hemisphere as well as improving the area’s bird conservation capacity. As well it seeks to protect key wintering habitat for various Neo-tropical migrants and improves communications.
To date, the ABC has enjoyed success in network development of more than 40 globally significant biodiversity reserves in the following countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, and Peru. As well, there are plans to double this number. By protecting these reserves, birds are protected as well as biodiversity, local and global communities. Various endangered species will be protected through the reserve system as well.