Seabird Restoration on the Baja California Pacific Islands

From USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:

Cassin's auklet chicks on Todos Santos Island 2016. Photo courtesy of Grupo de Ecologia y Conservacion de Islas

Cormorant and chicks. Photo courtesy of Grupo de Ecologia y Conservacion de Islas.


Starting in 2012, the Luckenbach and Montrose Settlements Trustee Councils provided funding to several partner groups to undertake seabird restoration on the Baja California Pacific Islands. These islands off the Pacific coast of Mexico are crucial nesting and breeding grounds for numerous species of birds including California brown pelicans, Scripps’s murrelets and ashy storm-petrels. This effort just received an enormous boost on December 5, when the Government of Mexico announced the creation of the Pacific Islands Biosphere Reserve – a 2.8 million acre reserve off the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula. The reserve protects the islands as well as surrounding waters. Read more details: http://bit.ly/2g6tH3j. Photos courtesy of Grupo de Ecologia y Conservacion de Islas.


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