Center for Biological Diversity, Oceana, and SharkStewards filed a petition this week to list the Great White Shark as threatened orendangered. From the petition: White sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, of the northeastern Pacific Ocean are in peril. New studies demonstrate that these sharks form a genetically distinct population. Such a population, covering a significant portion of the world’s oceans, urgently [...]

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Audubon is on the record with our opinion that drilling offshore in the Arctic is too big a risk to birds and other wildlife. And the realities of drilling in the Arctic continue to demonstrate that Shell isn’t ready to take this on. For example, this article in today’s Los Angeles Times about how Shell [...]

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As a child growing up in the Central Valley, I was lucky to have a love of nature instilled in me at an early age. For me, rivers were at the center of my world. Not only were they places to see and learn about birds and other wildlife, but they were where friends and [...]

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Back in late April, we alerted all of you to a tragedy unfolding in the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge. Because of a shortage of water in the Refuge, thousands of migratory waterfowl were perishing on their way north for spring migration. Our alarm prompted nearly 20,000 of you to send emails to the Secretary [...]

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The Red-necked Phalarope are now in California marshland. The birds, like their name indicates, have a chestnut red ring around their throats. This bird species exhibits reverse sex characteristics. The females are both brighter and larger than males. They also pursue the male to mate and after hatching migrate south leaving their mate to incubate the [...]

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A lawsuit filed in Iowa City, Iowa is bringing into question the constutionality of the Airborne Hunting Act. The Airborne Hunting Act prohibits and provides a penalty to any person who “while airborne in an aircraft shoots or attempts to shoot for the purpose of capturing or killing any bird, fish, or other animal; or uses an aircraft [...]

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s Last week, I along, with six other Audubon Center Directors, had the honor of attending the first ever White House Summit on Environmental Education (EE).   Throughout the day, we had an opportunity to learn about various movements within the EE field and share our ideas about the future of EE in the country.  While, [...]

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For the last few weeks, we’ve been talking about a growing disaster for birds at the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, where dwindling water supplies have left thousands, if not millions, of migrating waterfowl at risk for disease and starvation. So far, more than 20,000 birds have died, and the number is growing. We’ve been [...]

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Typically, when we see thousands of dead birds scattered across a natural space, our first thought is an oil spill, something like the recent Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf (the second anniversary of which we recognized this week). But another kind of man-made disaster is taking place in Northern California right now, and it’s [...]

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Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the oil platform explosion that touched off the Gulf Oil Spill. As you may remember, the spill couldn’t have happened at a worse time. Millions of shorebirds were just beginning to arrive in the Gulf as part of spring migration, and as the spill continued into the summer, birds [...]

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A number of folks from Audubon are attending today’s White House Summit on Environmental Education. Pictured above, Jeff Chapman, director of the Audubon Center at Debs Park listens to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.   Share on Facebook

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Interesting article posted on the Forbes website today about the potential conflict between the resurgent  California Condor and increased wind energy development in the Tehachapi Mountains. As the endangered bird slowly begins to recover more of its historical range, representatives from both the wind energy industry and environmental advocates acknowledge that a condor death from [...]

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A major wind power development in Washington State has been nixed because of potential impacts to the endangered Marbled Murrelet. (photo of Marbled Murrelet by USFWS) Share on Facebook

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For the longest time, Audubon has been concerned about the future of the Salton Sea. Early on, it was chapters that led the fight, but then Audubon California and the National Audubon Society got involved. Lately, we’ve been pressuring the state to keep its promises about the Salton Sea. Today brings an interesting viewpoint from [...]

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Thanks to a settlement negotiated by the Golden Gate Audubon Society and other Bay Area Audubon chapters, operators of a controversial wind farm in Northern California will be substantially upgrading their facility in the coming years. The hope is that the modern turbines will present far less of a danger to birds than the older [...]

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