GCA Mission

The GCA founders believe that acting to protect biodiversity is a worthy cause and that working to right an anthropogenic wrong via environmentally responsible intervention is many times a valid response. For the Red Knots we need more horseshoe crab eggs. On the political and educational fronts we need to publicize the Red Knot – horseshoe crab ecology and our part in its deterioration in order to avoid or stall similar abuses in the future. We want to champion these two species, not only focusing attention on them to avoid the extinction of a race of an exceptional trans hemispheric migrant, but to give scale to the realization that people's momentary lack of forethought and respect can have devastating consequences that may last a very long time, perhaps forever.

The focus of GCA's Red Knot Survival Project is very narrow: we want shorebirds using Delaware Bay as a migration stopover site to leave for the Arctic with enough fat reserves to have an optimum chance of surviving the flight and raising a brood to increase their population numbers and thus exceed the depressed current levels which put the very species at risk of extinction. We want more horseshoe crab eggs on the beach, so the birds can consume enough to fuel their northward flights - whatever that takes, as long as the solution is environmentally sound.