Manomet, Inc.

Through our scientific research and monitoring, we hold vast data on climate-induced changes in migratory birds and their habitat. We have analyzed some of the most important potential impacts of a changing climate on shorebird populations, like changes in the timing of food source availability. We have conducted modeling and mapping in coastal watersheds to help communities and municipalities make sound decisions to navigate increased precipitation events and rising waters.

Science: We use an interdisciplinary approach to develop management guidance that is based on the latest scientific advances.

Partnerships: We engage a broad set of stakeholders that have the ability to implement natural system-based methods of climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Management Practices: We implement solutions that benefit both natural systems and our stakeholders, taking into account both the risks and opportunities presented by climate change.

Research and monitoring drive our science activities. Our research efforts include shorebird and landbird conservation, fisheries, forestry, and social science applied to conservation. These disciplines are core to understanding and informing our work to address flyway health, resilient habitats including coastal ecosystems, and working lands and seas. Through all of our work, we hope to understand the impacts of climate change on species distribution and health.

Applying science is core to everything we do. By providing technical guidance tools and clearly communicating scientific results to stakeholders, we ensure that our science is used to achieve practical solutions.

For animals that travel tremendous distances — like migratory shorebirds that span continents, or fish that leave ocean life to spawn in rivers and streams — a diverse network of healthy and intact coastal, riverine, wetland, and grassland habitats are critical to ensuring that migratory populations thrive.

At Manomet, our greatest conservation accomplishments involve our ability to work with others, integrating cutting-edge science, targeted management actions, and long-term monitoring to improve habitat. Throughout the Americas, we identify threats to nature and develop measures to alleviate pressure on the most valuable and sensitive ecosystems. Healthy ecosystems and vibrant wildlife populations are critical to ensuring that human communities thrive.

Manomet is committed to understanding these issues and working toward maintaining and restoring resilient habitats to benefit wildlife and people. We have an ambitious goal of implementing improvements on 500,000 acres...

Manomet is best known for its work on avian species and is arguably the world leader in shorebird conservation. We are working to grow the impact of this work through enhanced monitoring, expansion of on-the-ground site conservation, a strong focus on working lands and seas, and enhanced partnerships.

Many shorebird species use habitats across a vast geography, undertaking some of the longest migrations in the animal kingdom. They are also one of the bird groups undergoing the steepest declines. The total geographic area used by a species or population during its annual lifecycle is termed a flyway. Within each flyway, shorebirds tend to concentrate at just a few sites that provide safe foraging and resting habitat.

Balancing conservation with production across flyways and resilient habitats

High-quality habitat conditions for wildlife can exist alongside resource-based industries such as agriculture, fisheries, and salt production. Using our experience developed over several decades, we are expanding our efforts to secure greater conservation impacts. We will continue to design and then help implement better management practices for the benefit of nature, wildlife, involved businesses, and human communities.