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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>BCNnet friends:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Dr. George Fenwick, the President and CEO of the American Bird
Conservancy (ABC) will be appearing before the DuPage Bird Club on Thursday,
November 11, 2010, 7:30 PM, at the Faith Lutheran Church, 41 N. Park Blvd
(just north of Roosevelt Rd.), in Glen Ellyn.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Dr. Fenwick has been active in conservation and particularly bird
conservation for some 36 years, including 16 years with the award winning
Virginia Chapter of The Nature Conservancy and as Director for 6 years. During the
last 16 years he founded and is President of ABC.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>ABC is uniquely the only organization in the world whose sole mission
is the protection of wild birds and their habitat throughout the western
hemisphere. Here are just a few of ABC's achievements under
George’s leadership:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>· <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Helping to create, expand and
sustain more than 40 globally significant biodiversity reserves in eleven
countries that provide critical habitat for more than 200 endangered species<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.75pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=4 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Initially created the only staffed
pesticide program in the United States working to block or restrict EPA’s
registration of pesticides that pose unreasonable risks to the environment <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>based on wildlife concerns.</span></i> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.75pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=4 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Creating the predominant national
education outreach program – <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Cats
Indoors!</span></i> – to address the growing wildlife and animal rights
issue of people abandoning their cats into natural areas, parks, and
neighborhoods. <o:p></o:p></p>
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size=4 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Tackling the greatest policy-based
threats to birds (and other biodiversity) from climate change, invasive
species, poor land management, collisions with man-made buildings,
seabird by-catch in fisheries and others, all of which are taking a toll.
<o:p></o:p></p>
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14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>This will be his first presentation following the most recent
publication of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The American Bird
Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation </span></i>which he co-authored and
he will speak about the new book, the current status and future of bird
conservation, and what citizens can do that will truly help save
birds. The new guide is the most thorough and scientifically
credible assessment of threats to birds of the Americas ever
published. George will also speak on the current and future
work of ABC<font color=red><span style='color:red'>.</span></font></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Dr. Fenwick was nominated for the Indianapolis Prize in 2008, received
the ABA’s Chandler Robbins Award in 2009, the Partners in Flight Champion
of Bird Conservation Award in 2010, and most recently was honored with the
naming of the newly discovered Fenwick’s Antpitta (<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Grallaria fenwickorum</span></i>).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>If you have any interest in birds and bird conservation this is a talk
you won’t want to miss.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Donnie Dann<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Highland Park/Lake County<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><a href="mailto:donniebird@yahoo.com">donniebird@yahoo.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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