Working alongside farmers, tribes, and governments, our members continue to play an exciting role in educating the public, providing research opportunities and expanding conservation options across the globe.
Our membership includes private aviculturists, students, researchers, conservationists, educators, zoo professionals, and waterfowl enthusiasts.
Today, International Wild Waterfowl Association’s reach is global. For more than 50 years, our dedicated members have been committed to waterfowl protection woldwide.
- Reservation in New Mexico fight cattle to save wetlands: Our commitment to protecting and enhancing wild waterfowl habitats through support of a Zuni reservation wetland project near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Read More
- Giving the Nene O Molak’I Nene a better chance for survival: Supporting the captive breeding and restoration of the endangered Nene (Branta sandvicensis), such as the innovative program of propagation and soft-release on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Read More
- SeaWorld and IWWA act to support dwindling duck populations: Learn more about how SeaWorld – with the support of IWWA – have supported the White-Winged Wood Duck by establishing a breeding facility in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. Read More
- IWWA is a partner in cooperative conservation projects: Our partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the American Zoological Association’s Waterfowl Taxon Advisory Group works to establish genetically diverse, captive populations of the Chilean torrent duck (Merganetta a. armata) and the bronze-winged duck (Anas specularis).
- Letter writing campaign to Alaskan government protects Tule Goose: IWWA champions research about little-known wild waterfowl species, such as our support of pioneering work with Tule geese (Anser albifrons gambelli) and current research on the masked duck (Oxyura dominica). Read More
- IWWA educates waterfowl conservationists by support of publications such as Frank Todd’s Natural History of the Waterfowl, the classic Raising Wild Ducks in Captivity, and our newsletter, published since 1969.
- IWWA fosters the exchange of information about waterfowl, both wild and captive, and wetlands, among professionals through our conferences, held regularly since 1959. IWWA’s annual awards program recognizes outstanding leadership and achievement in the conservation and the captive-culture of wild waterfowl.
- IWWA strongly believes in the roles of aviculture and in-situ conservation in sustaining wild waterfowl. We use these tools in a dynamic conservation policy that informs our international legislative activities concerning permitting regulations, public land use, and conservation.
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