Breakfast Roundtable

• Wednesday, February 3: 8:00am to 9:30am — Garden Terrace Room
• Pre-registration required, $25 Extra Fee
• Menu: Orange and Grapefruit Juices – Seasonal Sliced Fruit and Mixed Berries – Breakfast Breads and Pastries, Butter, and Fruit Preserves – Selection of New York Style Bakery Bagels with Whipped, Light and Flavored Cream Cheese – Individual Dry Cereals, Granola with Dried Fruit, Nuts and Whole Bananas – Assorted Individual Flavored Yogurts – Scrambled Eggs with Fresh Herbs – Hickory Smoked Bacon – Chicken Apple Sausage -Chef’s Breakfast Potatoes – Served with Starbucks Hot Coffee, Tazo Hot Tea

The Breakfast Roundtable is an opportunity for us to kick-off the conference by delving deeply into our conference theme, Interwoven Paths: Navigating Migratory Routes and Rediscovering Our Own. We will engage in stimulating conversation with our fellow wildlifers while enjoying a delicious buffet breakfast. 

We invite you to explore the theme through our discussion of barriers to migration with your tablemates. Wildlife migration routes can take on many forms, whether it be elevational, geographical, multi-generational, etc. and they can be disrupted by both natural and human-caused barriers. These challenges can vary depending on the species and its life stage. Addressing and mitigating these barriers requires action at multiple scales, including individuals, local communities, governments, and conservation organizations.

We hope you will join us! All conference attendees are welcome and encouraged to register, no prior knowledge or experience is required. The more diverse the participation, the more diverse the conversation. 

Wednesday Morning Session 8am – 9:30am

We will begin with a short welcome and introduction from the Breakfast Roundtable Committee, then we invite participants to discuss different barriers to wildlife migration with their tablemates. Next we will come back together as a group to share our thoughts. Then we will explore ways that we can address these impacts through continued discussion with our tablemates. We will conclude the session by reconvening to share highlights.

Questions:

• Barriers to wildlife migrations can be in many forms and vary for different species and different life stages. What are some natural barriers to migration? What are some human-introduced barriers to migration?
• What actions, both small and large, can people as individuals and/or communities take to address (e.g., remove, modify, or mitigate) these barriers?
  • What are some actions people are currently taking that could be expanded?
  • What are some new and innovative ideas?