Virtual. Included in Paid Festival Registration.

Tune in for a virtual presentation by Jonathan Vargas. A Mexican biologist, conservationist, birding guide, bird photographer, and shorebird expert; he did research stays in Utah and California and has participated in several shorebirds surveys in Northwest Mexico. Currently, he has been a leader in shorebird conservation in the Bahía Todos Santos, Baja California and a volunteer coordinator of the Urban Bird Program in the city of Ensenada,BC., Mexico.

"The Coastal Solutions project for the conservation of shorebirds in Bahía Todos Santos". It is a multidisciplinary and collaborative project between government agencies, private initiative, civil society organizations and the community. It focuses on reducing threats to shorebirds, increasing the reproductive success of the Snowy Plover, and promoting medium and long-term preservation through public policy management, research, monitoring, adaptive habitat management, festivals, conservation activities and citizen science.