The Gulf Coast Joint Venture (GCJV) is a regional partnership composed of individuals, conservation organizations, and state and federal agencies that are concerned with conserving migratory birds and their habitats along the western U.S. Gulf of Mexico from Brownsville, Texas, to Mobile Bay in Alabama (GCJV map).



    Mottled Ducks

The partnership was established under the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP), a strategy for the conservation and perpetuation of continental waterfowl populations that depends on restoring wetlands and associated ecosystems within priority landscapes throughout North America. Partners of the GCJV have accepted the responsibility of transforming the goals of the NAWMP into biologically-driven habitat conservation within an ecologically-based focus area of special significance to waterfowl.

The primary goal of the GCJV is to provide for waterfowl in winter and ensure they survive and return to the breeding grounds in good condition.




  Great Blue Heron

The GCJV partnership is expanding its scope to coordinate and cooperate with habitat conservation initiatives for migratory birds other than waterfowl (Partners in Flight, U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan, and North American Waterbird Conservation Plan).