PACIFIC BIRD CONSERVATION

What they do

1.MARIANA AVIFAUNA CONSERVATION (MAC) PROGRAM: THE MAC PROGRAM STARTED IN 2004. THIS PROJECT is INTENDED to PROVIDE THE AVIFAUNA of THE MARIANA ARCHIPELAGO WITH THE BEST POSSIBLE CHANCES for LONG-TERM SURVIVAL, WITH THE OBJECTIVES of PRESERVING, MAINTAINING, and ESTABLISHING SELF-SUSTAINING POPULATIONS of NATIVE BIRDS SECURE FROM THE THREAT of THE BROWN TREE SNAKE. to RAPIDLY ADDRESS THIS THREAT, THE CNMI HAS ASKED INSTITUTIONS WITH THE AZA for ASSISTANCE WITH LONG-TERM CONSERVATION EFFORTS AIMED AT PROTECTING NATIVE AVIFAUNA ON SAIPAN, TINIAN, and ROTA. THE CNMI HAS SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED THE FOLLOWING ASSISTANCE: DEVELOPMENT of TECHNIQUES to CAPTURE, ACCLIMATE, HOLD, TRANSPORT, and BREED IN CAPTIVITY ALL of THE BIRD SPECIES FOUND IN THE CNMI. ESTABLISH CAPTIVE POPULATIONS of SELECTED SPECIES THAT CAN BE USED AS A SOURCE POPULATION for POSSIBLE REINTRODUCTION BACK to GUAM or ISLANDS IN THE CNMI WHERE BROWN TREE SNAKES HAVE BEEN CONTROLLED or ERADICATED. TRANSLOCATE BIRDS to ISLANDS IN