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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The Golden Gate Audubon Society is partnering with Pacific Gas and Electric Company and the San Francisco Department of the Environment announce the fall Lights Out for Birds. The program enables building owners, managers and tenants to save energy and money while protecting migratory birds. Lights Out for Birds participants turn off unnecessary building lights during the [...]

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Members of the Bolsa Chica Land Trust are upset that the city of Huntington Beach has approved a new housing development close to prescious wetland habitat, and are suing to stop it. The Bolsa Chica Wetlands are part of the Orange Coast Wetlands Important Bird Area.
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As the San Benito County Board of Supervisors begins to consider approval for a massive solar energy plant on the floor of Panoche Valley, representatives of Audubon California today expressed serious concerns about the potential such a project could have on sensitive birds and habitat. Audubon California has listed Panoche Valley as an Important Bird [...]

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Right now, we have a chance to influence a historic, one-time opportunity to protect seabirds in California. As you read this, a small group of coastal stakeholders from the Oregon border to Point Arena are hammering out a network of marine protected areas through the California Marine Life Protection Act.  They’ve recently released their latest [...]

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As we learned during the recent battle over the proposed toll road in Orange County, there are few better advocates for the beach environment than surfers. They’re at the beach every day and have a personal stake in keeping the place beautiful and pristine. To that end, Audubon California and women’s surf brand Carve Designs [...]

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Interesting story about one woman in Bodega Bay who wants to ensure that a new development won’t harm a rookery for Great Blue Heron and Great Egrets. She’s enlisted the help of the local Madrone Audubon Society and two Coastal Commissioners.
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So conservationists and farmers don’t always get along — that’s not news, certainly not in the Central Valley. But as Audubon California has learned with its various landowner programs over the past few years, there are plenty of opportunities for the two to partner on projects to have benefits for both agriculture and the environment. [...]

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In what will be a significant boost to its efforts to support California’s diverse array of migratory waterbirds, Audubon California recently received a $541,000 grant to protect breeding Western and Clark’s Grebes at four lakes in Northern California. The funding for Audubon California’s multi-layered project will come from the Luckenbach Trustee Council, which oversees the [...]

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We’re really enjoying hearing about the restoration of the San Joaquin River, and this bit of news from the Fresno Bee about this great California river reaching the Pacific again is terrific. The restoration of this river provides an excellent conservation opportunity in the Central Valley for birds and habitat.
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The Golden Gate Audubon Society and other local groups are weighing in with concerns about a plan to install artificial turf and lights in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Representatives of the chapter are concerned that the project will impact the birds and other wildlife that take advantage of the habitat in and around the [...]

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Imagine if someone wanted to build a chemical plant on your community’s only wildlife area – or heck, next to your kid’s elementary school – and they told you that you wouldn’t ever have any say in the matter. You could never get a chance to ask about what this project would do to air [...]

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Remember last year when we made quite a fuss about the multiple sewage spills threatening the San Francisco Bay egosystem? Well, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, the problem continues. This pollution is a creeping threat to the birds and other wildlife in the Bay, needless to say the humans that use the area regularly. [...]

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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials are hitting the eastern Sierra to talk with residents about their ideas concerning solar development of Owens Lake. We’re keeping a close on eye on all this, as Owens Lake is one of our more significant Important Bird Areas.
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While it is probably good news for all the Red-tailed Hawks and Golden Eagles of Contra Costa County that officials are going to set up new perches to encourage raptors to control the county’s squirrel population, the move is just the latest evidence that expanding communities into natural areas has consequences. Just recently, an Antioch developer [...]

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