CAPE
SABLE IMPORTANT BIRD AREA
EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
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Introduction
It
is with joy that this document has
been prepared in order to provide
a more complete background information
for the Cape Sable Important Bird
Area. We live in an area of great
natural beauty and profound ecological
importance. The birds that use our
area have done so for millennia.
They enrich life for everyone in
Cape Sable. The potential for ecotourism
in our area, though limited, does
hold out opportunity. This is true
only as the people of this area
protect and cherish the habitat
which makes it possible. Eco-tourism
presents its own worries, but it
is only as we accept the challenge
as good stewards of the natural
environment that people can bless
the birds and the birds can bless
the people.
The
Important Bird Areas (IBA) program
is an international effort to identify,
conserve, and monitor a network
of sites that provide essential
habitat for bird populations. The
role of the Maritime IBA Program,
which commenced in 1999, is to provide
groups and organisations such as
the Cape Sable Action Group with
tools to protect, to conserve, and
to monitor important sites that
are identified as IBA’s under
the national program. The program
provides assistance to naturalists
groups and other organisations to
carry out conservation activities,
to promote conservation on the ground,
to carry out education, and to develop
their own approaches to bird conservation.
IBA conservation planners facilitate
this approach. Documents are written
for specific IBA’s, outlining
conservation concerns, and measures.
It is with this perspective that
we established an Important Bird
Area Local Action Committee. Theis
initiative will contribute to the
overall good of the symbiosis which
can exist between us as the dominant
human species and the birds.
This present document was written
with the cooperation of the Cape
Sable Action Committee by Grant
Milroy, with comments from Peter
MacDonald, Reg Newell, Murray Newell
and Clyde Stoddart. Cape Sable Local
Action Committee was formed to promote
the recognition of the Cape Sable
area as an ecologically unique and
important area for birds, including
a nationally endangered species
and other wildlife.
The committee seeks to promote the
conservation and stewardship of
species and habitats in the Cape
Sable area by:
- improving
public awareness through interpretative
and educational programs and
- supporting
existing conservation programs.
The
Town of Clark’s Harbour and the
Municipality of Barrington have
both contributed financially to
this project and the committee is
actively seeking other funding.
