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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California Senator Barbara Boxer yesterday introduces legislation to make Pinnacles National Monument into a National Park. The park is known for its population of California Condors. (photo by Bryce Edwards)
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The Center for Biological Diversity and the American Bird Conservancy this week began their public launch of a new campaign to ban the use of lead ammunition and lead fishing weights because of the impact on birds and other wildlife. Of course, this is something that we at Audubon California have long felt strong about [...]

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The Los Angeles Times has an interesting story today about the national outcry of the mass killing of Canada Geese going on in New York and elsewhere in response to the recent “bird strike” crash in the Hudson.
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The California Condor hasn’t been seen on the North Coast of California in a long time, but one Native American tribe is hoping to bring them back. Representatives of the Yurok Tribe say that the condor is an important part of their culture, a part that was lost when the condor faded from the region [...]

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With the recent designation that the Los Angeles River is a navigable waterway, and thus subject to the Clean Water Act, L.A. Times reporter Louis Sahagun and a group of river activists decided to kayak part of the river and take a look at what’s in there. Gabriela Castañeda, from the Audubon Center at Debs Park, [...]

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Interesting story from the Associated Press this morning about how even though the Gulf Oil spill has done far more ecological damage, the 1969 Santa Barbara spill prompted much more societal change — even going so far as to inspire the first Earth Day. Of course, the author notes, the Gulf spill is still relatively [...]

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The National Audubon Society, with the Environmental Defense Fund and the National Wildlife Federation, has issued a report that outlines the necessary steps to restore and rebuild an ecosystem that even before the recent catastrophic oil spill, has lost more than 2,300 square miles of wetlands—an area larger than the state of Delaware—since the 1930s. Here’s the press [...]

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A recent decision in Kansas could have major implications for how the federal government enforces the Migratory Bird Act throughout the country. In deciding that an oil company was responsible for the deaths of birds caused by its equipment, the 10th Circuit Court of appeals ruled that defendants could be found responsible for penalties under [...]

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Earlier this month, bird enthusiasts all around the country were stunned to hear that officials had captured and gassed to death 400 Canada Geese in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Well, it turns out, killing 400 birds was just the beginning. New reports indicate that the state plans to euthanize as many as 170,000 of the geese. [...]

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The Obama Administration has indicated that it is set to launch a sweeping new National Stewardship Policy for America’s oceans and Great Lakes. Reports indicate that this new framework will greatly bolster conservation and ecosystem restoration.
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Senior members of President Obama’s environmental team are traveling the country to get input from the public on how to best develop a 21st Century conservation agenda that will reconnect American with our country’s great outdoors. The caravan swung into Los Angeles this week, and the folks at the Audubon Center at Debs Park could think of no [...]

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In a decision that could lead to major restoration of the Los Angeles River, the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday declared the waterway “traditional and navigable.” The designation means that the river qualifies for protection under the Clean Water Act, and points the way toward restoration. This opens the way to removing the concrete-lined banks and [...]

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The Center for Biological Diversity today notified the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service of its intent to sue the agency to compel it to list the Ashy Storm-Petrel under the Endangered Species Act. You might recall that last year the agency decided not to list the species, even though it is in great danger of [...]

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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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