Arctic Council Working Group 
AMBI Americas Flyway
In the Americas Flyway, AMBI works with partners to address priority conservation issues including:
- the underlying threats that contribute to loss or degradation of habitats, such as the expansion of white geese on tundra habitats, human-caused disturbances in coastal development, unsustainable hunting and plastic pollution.
- climate change, affecting shorebird productivity in the Arctic, and the habitat quality and quantity throughout the flyway.
AMBI has identified 7 objectives and 15 actions in the flyway work plan.
AMBI Americas Flyway Priority Species
AMBI Americas Flyway Work Plan 2019-2025
THEME 1: EVALUATE IMPACTS OF OVERABUNDANT GEESE POPULATIONS ON ARCTIC SHOREBIRD HABITAT AND IMPLEMENT APPROPRIATE MITIGATION MEASURES
Action 1: Understand impacts of populations of white geese on other bird species in western Canada
Action 2: Understand trends in the populations of white geese in Alaska and their impacts on shorebird breeding habitats
Action 1: Implement management actions resulting from study of white geese impacts in Canada (undertaken as part of AMBI Phase 1).
Action 1: Continue to include Indigenous Knowledge in future work through co-development of management priorities for western geese.
THEME 2: IDENTIFICATION OF CLIMATE RESILIENT SHOREBIRD BREEDING AND WINTERING HABITAT
Action 1: Carry out an analysis of the resilience of shorebird wintering habitat to climate change.
Action 2: Promote protection of climate change resilient shorebird breeding, wintering and migration habitats.
THEME 3: REDUCE SHOREBIRD HABITAT IMPAIRMENT FROM HUMAN INTRUSIONS, DISTURBANCES, DESTRUCTION AND DEGRADATION
Action 1: Support efforts to develop policies and legislation to ensure the sustainability of legal hunting of shorebirds in North and South America
Action 2: Promote studies that assess the prevalence and impacts of plastic contamination in shorebird populations in the Arctic
Action 3: Work with communities and governments to assess and identify critical threats for priority species on designated WHSRN and IBA sites
Action 1: Evaluate the impacts of habitat loss and degradation from agriculture, aquaculture, renewable energy production and tourism development on shorebirds and their habitats in Latin America
Action 2: Ensure mitigation measures are incorporated into development decisions
Action 3: Designate important sites under appropriate international conservation frameworks (e.g. Ramsar Convention, WHSRN, World Heritage)
Action 4: Work with communities and governments to protect important sites
THEME 4: FLYWAY PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION
Action 1: Promote and support the implementation of regional strategies and flyway initiatives
Action 2: Encourage/coordinate the development of an American Mid-continental Flyway strategy
Experts
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Richard (Rick) Lanctot
AMBI Steering Group, AMBI Americas Flyway Committee, AMBI Central and East Asian-Australasian Flyway CommitteeUnited States
