REESTABLISHMENT OF CONNECTIVITY IN PRIOR

In the Chihuahua grasslands in Mexico, the El Tokio Grassland Priority Conservation Area (GPCA) comprises ?16,000 ac of inter-mountain grasslands, 80% of which is heavily overgrazed, degraded, and highly fragmented.

Partners in this project's fourth phase will 1) protect 7,400 ac through a conservation agreement with Ejidos/Private Ranches in Coahuila and San Luis Potos; 2) restore 1,235 ac of intermountain grasslands (with grazing management plans, infrastructure, key-line treatment to avoid hydric erosion and improve soil) to suitable conditions; 3) monitor grassland migratory birds health, population densities and habitat vegetation structure (before and after management and restoration activities to assess wintering population status) 4) involve Ejido members / private owners through participation in the generation of the fourth Community Management Plan; and 5) sensitize 300 children and train 30 rural teachers through environmental education workshops focused on grassland migratory neotropical birds.