Migratory birds connect us across continents. While it’s easy to think of birds as “ours,” tied to a particular state or region, their life and health depend on distant habitats that are just as important as those near us. Each fall, billions of birds leave North America for the “Five Great Forests” of Central America. These forests support up to half of the global populations of some of our most iconic migratory birds. But in the last 15 years, illegal cattle ranching and fires have erased near