The Pacific Coast Joint Venture now has a portal in the Conservation Registry. The portal is poised to become the primary tool for geospatial tracking of Pacific Coast Joint Venture partners’ accomplishments, while helping them coordinate with others to implement on-the-ground projects.

The Pacific Coast Joint Venture develops partnerships to protect and restore lowland wetland and upland ecosystems for the benefit birds and other wildlife. The joint venture works in the coastal areas of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Northern California and Hawaii. The PCJV is one of 18 habitat joint ventures in North America working to carry out the goals of four major bird conservation initiatives.

Registry portals are designed to give organizations the ability to visualize their projects in a larger context and to tailor the Registry’s features to their own needs. The Pacific Coast Joint Venture needed a portal that could integrate its information-rich web site with the portal’s mapping capabilities, while enabling partners to access, update and visualize their projects electronically.

View the portal here. Check out the Pacific Coast Joint Venture’s web site here.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife–a Registry partner from the beginning–mentions the Registry in their current e-newsletter. Read it here. The mighty Oregon Explorer, home of all things mappable in Oregon, has also picked up this story. Thanks, guys!

While you’re on the ODFW website, check out Bats For Everyone, a bat workshop at the Oregon Zoo on November 3rd. Everyone loves bats–especially this time of year.

How many bat conservation projects are in the Registry? Do a text search and find out. Have a bat project you’d like to report? Enter it in the Conservation Registry.

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