The Pacific Flyway Wildlife Program

The primary goal of this project is to develop a model economic framework designed to provide long-term, sustained, private sector funding to increase the quality and quantity of waterbird Habitat in California’s ricelands. Each year at least a billion birds migrate along the Pacific Flyway, but these birds are only a fraction of those that used the flyway a century ago. Habitat loss and other factors threaten the birds of the Pacific Flyway. California, which is key to the Flyway, has lost 95% of its natural wetlands. Due to these extensive losses, creating and enhancing Habitat for wetland-dependant species is vital to the continued functioning of the Flyway.