IDEAS AND RESOURCES FOR CELEBRATING THE 2007 CEBF on GLOBAL WARMING - Click Here!

6th Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival to be celebrated April 22 - May 22, 2007

The Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB) will celebrate the 6th edition of the Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival (CEBF) from 22 April to 22 May 2007. The purpose of the festival is to increase public awareness of the region’s high endemism and rich bird life through activities such as talks, nature and birdwatching walks, photographic exhibitions, art competitions, launching of endemic bird postal stamps, articles in the media, and the preparation and distribution of educational materials about birds to schoolchildren and the general public.

Our Goal: To be even bigger than last year’s success
Thanks to your collaboration, we held a successful event in 2006 with a total of  20,322 persons participating in 260 activities held in 11 countries. Congratulations on this incredible result! Each year the festival has grown and we hope to have even more participating people and countries this year.

New for 2007: Theme of Global Warming
We have decided to adopt a different conservation theme each year. The theme will be related to environmental issues that Caribbean countries face such as habitat loss, watershed protection, pollution, invasive species, etc. The theme will present an opportunity to educate local communities about this issue and the actions they can take to counter the threat. In 2007, the theme will be climate change (or global warming), following the same theme adopted by the International Migratory Bird Day for 2007. Materials available from IMBD (thanks to Sue Bonfield) include a climate change education booklet, bird buddy bands, bird stickers and bird tatoos. SCSCB is producing a Caribbean global warming poster to distribute to all coordinators and a global warming fact sheet that can be downloaded from SCSCB’s website. Click here for more information and to see the CEBF Global Warming Poster.

Will your country be celebrating? Let us know!
Please confirm if you will be coordinating festival activities in your country this year, and let me know as soon as possible about your plans so that a regional list of activities can be prepared. If the local coordinator has changed, and you know his or her e-mail, I would appreciate your help with this information. If you know of additional groups that would like to join the festival, please send me their contact information (name and email address) so that I can communicate with them.

Please encourage other groups and organizations in your country to celebrate the festival and/or participate in your group’s activities. We are looking forward to hearing about the many exciting activities you will be organizing this year.

For more information please contact Sheylda Díaz Méndez, CEBF Coordinator.

Resources and Ideas for Celebrating the 2007 Festival - click here

See the CEBF 2006 Summary Report, Full Report and Photos for more ideas - click here