• Northwest Park Bird Area Conservation Plan
  The draft version of the plan prepared by Eric Davison and funded by the Jeniam Foundation, the Hartford Audubon Society and the Benjamin Olewine III Family is now available. This draft is a 132-page PDF file, so it will take a few minutes to open or download! Click to download >>http://www.northwestpark.org/pdf/nwp_iba_plan.pdf
  
  
• Horseshoe Crab Hearings
      Help support DEP efforts to improve habitats for migratory shorebirds 
      Thursday, November 9, 2006, 7 PM - Ramada Inn, Stratford, CT
      Monday, November 13, 2006, 7 PM - DEP Marine Headquarters, Old Lyme, CT
  
  
• Saving Biological Diversity: Weighing the Protection of Endangered Species Versus Entire Ecosystems  -- April 6 & 7, 2007 -- Connecticut College.  Conference Schedule (PDF)
  
  
• Rentschler Field Environmental Impact Evaluation - October 2006
  
  
• Silvio O. Conte NFWR Comprehensive Conservation Planning Scoping Sessions - October 2006
  
  
• Information needed about shorebird staging - Fall migration 2006>>
  
  
• Lighthouse Point Park Conservation Plan>>
  
  
• Help Increase Funding for Open Space and Farmland>>
  
  
• COA/CTDEP Natural Diversity Data Base Project
  
  
• Connecticut's Important Bird Areas Program (IBAs)
  Connecticut currently has 27 recognized IBAs and is working to announce additional sites in 2006. More about Connecticut's IBAs>>

• Cove Island Park, Stamford
  IBA Conservation Plan
  
  
• Horseshoe Crabs & Red Knots
  Alarmed by the dramatic drop in the Red Knot rufa subspecies population, Audubon supports a moratorium on taking of horseshoe crabs in the Mid-Atlantic region.
  More on the moratorium>>
  
  
• Draft plan for Station 43, South Windsor - (pdf file)

Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
August, 2002. Juvenile. West Haven.
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