Many of the Tribe’s other ongoing projects to restore and conserve the streams, forests, wildlife and other wild lands of Akwesasne have the potential to increase and improve habitat for the area’s bird life. A number of the proposed ecological restoration projects from the Alcoa Inc. and General Motors settlement-associated natural resource damage assessment – including stream and wetland restoration, acquisition of land, upland restoration, and the construction of osprey and bald eagle nesting platforms – all have the potential to help conserve the birds that live or pass through Akwesasne in the face of climate change. The proposed Murphy Island restoration project would likely provide benefits to the state threatened common tern.