Our Jaguar biologist friend, Dr Tony Povilitis calling our attention to the Habitat and Connectivity Conservation Project for Southeastern Arizona & New Mexico being initiated by the WESTERN REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP(WRP)..............a worthy rewilding effort worthy of all of our support!

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From: Tony Povilitis <a_povilitis@yahoo.com>
To: Tony P <tpovilitis@lifenetnature.org>
Sent: Wed May 18 13:28:50 2011
Subject: Fw: Habitat and Connectivity Conservation Project for Southeastern Arizona & New Mexico

 

Hello-

This is precisely the kind of collaborative project that could help immensely with the conservation of nature and recovery of endangered wildlife in the Southwest. Please send a note to Amy Amy Duffy amyduffy@duffyconsulting.net supporting it. I'd encourage your organization to go all out to see this project carried forth. Let me know if I can help in any way.

Thank you!

Tony Poviliti
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From: Tony Povilitis <a_povilitis@yahoo.com>
To: Amy Duffy <amyduffy@duffyconsulting.net>
Sent: Wed, May 18, 2011 12:44:55 PM
Subject: Habitat and Connectivity Conservation Project for Southeastern Arizona & New Mexico

 

Amy Duffy, Consultant

Western Regional Partnership

Dear Amy,

Thank you for the opportunity to participate via phone in yesterday's Western Regional Partnership's joint meeting of its Land Use and Wildlife Corridors, Critical Habitat and Threatened and Endangered Species Committees. As per your request for follow-up recommendations, I urge full development and implementation of the excellent pilot project described on WRP's website:

 Project Focus Area: Southeastern Arizona & New Mexico The project creates opportunities to enhance habitat, reduces its potential for loss, improves connectivity and corridors, and helps conserve open space. Phase one focuses on Southern Arizona with the establishment of the GIS modeling application and acting as a convener to assist in the sharing of information, communications and land protection.

Consistent with WRP goals, this is exactly the kind of "'Key Landscape within the WRP Region where various member resources can be brought to bear and a bold project undertaken." The project would interface entirely with the America's Great Outdoor Initiative, the US Fish & Wildlife Service's Strategy for Habitat Conservation, the Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, local and county efforts, the U.S. Army's Fort Huachuca environmental initiatives, and other existing programs with comparable goals discussed at yesterday's meeting. It could thus serve as a national model for focusing resources on a broad landscape area experiencing a full range of contemporary challenges: rapid urbanization, expansion of agriculture, energy and transportation related development, border security needs and issues, climate change impacts, loss of habitat connectivity for wildlife, declining biodiversity, and increasingly diminished water and open space resources.

I'd be happy to help advance this pilot project in any way I can.

Sincerely,

Tony Povilitis, Ph.D.

Director

LifeNetNature

(520) 384-3886