So what are a bunch of researchers and conservationists from Audubon California doing in Victoria, Canada? Well, they’re attending the first ever World Seabird Conference to promote new research on West Coast marine important bird areas. Working closely with our Audubon colleagues from The National Audubon Society, Audubon Alaska, Nature Canada, and host of top [...]

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Audubon California Executive Director Graham Chisholm and Nell Newman, founder of Newman’s Own Organics and a noted raptor advocate, have an opinion piece in tomorrow’s San Francisco Chronicle demanding that the County of Alameda get serious about addressing the problem of bird kills at the Altamont Pass wind energy farm. It is estimated that somewhere [...]

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There is perhaps no better wild place on the earth than the Galápagos Islands. Audubon California Executive Director Graham Chisholm is leading a 10-day Audubon Nature Odyssey tour of the islands December 4-13 aboard the Lindblad National Geographic Islander (holding 48 passengers). The birds and wildlife should be amazing. Click here for more information. (Photo [...]

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Audubon California Executive Director Graham Chisholm is the subject of this online interview. He talks about the joys of birds and nature in the Bay Area.
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The State Wildlife Conservation board yesterday approved the purchase of the Hellman Ranch wetlands, adding its 100 acres to about 62 other acres already set aside for restoration. The wetlands are part of a corridor of important bird habitat along the Long Beach-Orange County shoreline. (photo by Daryl Supernaw)
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Back in January, Audubon California’s Executive Director Graham Chisholm traveled to Myanmar as part of an expedition to find the rare Spoon-billed Sandpiper. He reported on that trip here. Just recently, we discovered this great footage of the bird on YouTube, captured by another expedition to Russia. Of course all of this has very little [...]

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The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service held an event this morning at the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge honoring the first sales of the 2010 Federal Duck Stamp. Our own Graham Chisolm spoke at the event about the importance of wetland conservation and the contributions of the Duck Stamp program:

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Audubon California Executive Director Graham Chisholm teams with Mike Sweeney, the executive director of The Nature Conservancy in California to pen an op-ed in today’s San Francisco Chronicle about how if we want to save the importance ecosystems of the Delta for birds, fish and other wildlife, it is crucial that we pass the water [...]

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As you may know, Audubon California has forged a partnership with The Nature Conservancy and PRBO Conservation Science to protect migratory birds in California. One of the partnership’s main focus areas is the Klamath region of far northern California, and a few weeks ago some folks from Audubon California joined other members of the partnership to [...]

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Following up on our post a couple days ago about Audubon California Executive Director Graham Chisholm’s trip to Myanmar to survey Spoon-billed Sandpipers, we now have this video which features great footage of the bird by David Sibley:

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The coastal estuaries of Myanmar (Burma) are emerging as the last stand for the ultra rare Spoon-billed Sandpiper, a bird whose world-wide population is now placed at fewer than 500. In late January, I was lucky enough to join the tale end of an international expedition organized under the auspices of BirdLife International. Over two [...]

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A great article in Audubon Magazine highlights the terrific research and conservation work being done on Tejon Ranch since a major conservation agreement protected up to 240,000 acres of the property in 2008.
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Audubon California Executive Director Graham Chisholm writes today in the San Francisco Chronicle about the Tejon Ranch Conservation Agreement that set aside for permanent protection up to 240,000 acres of spectacular California wildlands:
For decades, the 270,000-acre Tejon Ranch was California conservationists’ Holy Grail – and our greatest worry. Thanks to a landmark conservation agreement between environmental [...]

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Representatives of Audubon California today highlighted one aspect of the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement – announced today by officials from the federal government, California and Oregon – which has the potential to benefit California’s migratory birds. Although the settlement is designed primarily to help rebuild fisheries in the region, it also establishes reliable water supplies [...]

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Responding to Gov. Schwarzenegger’s proposal to link funding for California State Parks to new offshore oil drilling, representatives of Audubon California today contended that no further proof is needed for state residents to support the State Parks and Wildlife Conservation Trust Fund Act of 2010, which will provide a stable source of funding that would [...]

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