EHL Newsletter Winter 2015 Vail Lake in Riverside County purchased by water district Seven thousand acres of largely pristine wildlife habitat surrounding Vail Lake – long dreamed of for conservation – were acquired for watershed protection purposes. Read More … Continue reading →
New Farm Bill Program to Restore Habitat for Cerulean, Golden-winged WarblersThanks to Senator Debbie Stabenow, other conservation leaders in the 113th Congress, and the Obama administration, the 2014 Farm Bill is delivering major new resources for an array of … Continue reading →
The latest attempt by some Southern California developers to have the Coastal California Gnatcatcher removed from protections under the Endangered Species Act is pretty outrageous – they claim the bird doesn’t even exist! The delisting petition sponsored by these developers … Continue reading →
First Predator-proof Fence on Kaua’i Completed at Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge Rare native plant and animal communities that have inhabited a roughly eight-acre area at the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge—including imperiled bird species found nowhere else on earth—will … Continue reading →
GBBC eNewsletter November 2014 Bird watching for the GBBC. Photo by Joan Condon, Mississippi, 2014 GBBC Mark Your Calendar! Greetings from the Great Backyard Bird Count team at Audubon, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Bird Studies Canada! We … Continue reading →
Dear Audubon Members, We thought we would share a happy update on the Tricolored Blackbird: Responding to an alarming drop in the rare bird’s numbers, the California Fish and Game Commission today approved an emergency listing of the Tricolored … Continue reading →
The PAS Board voted unanimously on these issues at their November 2014 meeting. The positions were submitted by the PAS Conservation Committee. Oak Creek Development Project Summary of Issue: Oak Creek is a proposal for a 65-home gated residential development … Continue reading →
Federal Agencies Urged to Follow Refuges and Ban Dangerous Pesticides A coalition of wildlife conservation and food safety organizations are calling federal land managers to halt the use of dangerous neonicotinoid pesticides due to harm to pollinators. Letters were … Continue reading →
June 18, 2014 UC Davis staff researcher Robert Meese, who coordinated the 2014 Tricolored Blackbird Statewide Survey, releases a banded male tricolored blackbird. (Sylvia Wright/photo) The population of California’s iconic tricolored blackbird has suffered a dramatic decline in the past … Continue reading →
Dear Audubon Advocate, Birds have long been bellwethers of nature gone astray. And they have been telling us for a while that climate change is here, and now. The signs are clear—migrating songbirds are arriving early, and species that normally … Continue reading →