RENO-VATING Habitat for Fish and Wildlife: A Film Festival Highlighting Collaborative Habitat Conservation and Its Benefits
At the 2019 joint AFS/TWS conference in Reno the National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) and AFS’s Fish Habitat Section teamed up to host a film festival to capture collaborative habitat conservation projects that support fish and wildlife. Films highlighted how improving habitat brings other benefits like improved water quality and socio-economic returns to people and communities. This festival took place throughout the week and included over 80 films broken out over 14 showing sessions. Nearly 500 conference participants were counted in attendance.
This festival offered a unique opportunity for meeting attendees to collaborate and learn about successful habitat conservation stories from across the country. Each showing session included time for available filmmakers and colleagues to share information about their film; as well as time at the end of the session, to engage in question and answer dialogue. Additionally, partners representing NFHP welcomed attendees and shared background on the NFHP Program. We even showed a film about us – you can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0Og_21pko
In addition festival organizers have created a digital archive for the festival, including weblinks so you can continue to enjoy these great stories. You can find it here: