National Audubon Society, Inc.

The National Audubon Society
protects birds and the places they
need, today and tomorrow.

Coasts
Audubon’s work focuses on the most important breeding, stopover, and wintering sites for birds in each flyway throughout the emisphere.
Water
Audubon engages and involves the public on issues surrounding water rights and water quality; restores habitats along rivers, wetlands, and deltas; and explores and implements market-based solutions that contribute to the achievement of our water goals.
Bird-friendly Communities
Audubon protects bird populations in America’s cities and towns by providing food, shelter, safe passage, and places for birds to raise their
young. Communities meet those needs through individual and collective actions—actions that also contribute to more sustainable human societies.
Working Lands
Audubon collaborates with landowners, land managers, government agencies, and private industry across the hemisphere to increase the quality of habitat on privately managed lands.
Climate
Leveraging our climate science, Audubon creates far greater demand for change on the climate issue by tapping into people’s passion for birds.

The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow. Audubon works throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. State programs, nature centers, chapters, and partners give Audubon an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire, and unite diverse communities in conservation action. A nonprofit conservation organization since 1905, Audubon believes in a world in which people and wildlife thrive.

Two years after Audubon hit the ground with our 2012-2015 strategic plan, we are seeing conservation results at an unprecedented scale. Aligning the Audubon network along shared strategic goals has given us a greater impact everywhere we work. But we also know that to be successful over the long term, we must continue to address needs for technology and data access throughout our network, modernize our communications strategies, exercise innovation in grassroots mobilization tactics, and deepen efforts to ensure that our network of staff, volunteers, members, and supporters fully reflects the nation's changing demographics.
Restoring America's Gulf Coast
Audubon was critical in passing the RESTORE Act—ensuring maximum funds will flow to Gulf Coast conservation in the wake of the BP oil spill. Now we're establishing a Gulf-wide stewardship plan with 21 shovel-ready projects already lined up across five states.
Data-driven victory in Alaska
Science and advocacy efforts culminated in a huge victory when our recommended map was accepted by the Department of the Interior in its final management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, protecting 11 million acres from energy development.
Safeguarding California wildlife from toxic lead
Thanks in part to extensive advocacy work by Audubon California, this year California became the first state to ban the use of lead ammunition in hunting.
Protecting Panama Bay
Audubon is working with local organizations to safeguard Panama Bay, a Globally Important Bird Area critical for migrating shorebirds and surrounded by development. This year the Panama Supreme Court reinstated the bay's protected status—a major step toward ensuring the bay remains a safe haven for birds.
Local advocacy for smart energy siting
Audubon chapters and state offices are using GIS technology to identify the safest areas for renewable energy siting. For example, Golden Eagle Audubon Society in Boise, Idaho, used GIS mapping to identify and advocate for an alternative route for a transmission line that would have impacted Greater Sage-Grouse habitat. Every chapter now has access to GIS tools and training through Audubon's partnership with GIS industry leader Esri.
Saving Western rivers
A coalition of organizations led by Audubon is scoring major conservation victories by mobilizing activists to protect water rights and save habitat along Western rivers threatened by drought, invasive species, and unsustainable water management.
Protecting bird habitat across the hemisphere
Audubon and its Nicaraguan conservation partners are using data from birds fitted with geolocators to home in on the most important Wood Thrush habitat to conserve—from the species' breeding grounds in the United States to its wintering grounds in Central and South America.