Greater Sage-Grouse. Photo: Evan Barrientos/Audubon Rockies FORT COLLINS, Colo. – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that it would begin an effort to restore previous plans to conserve Greater Sage-Grouse populations. In 2015, stakeholders from across the West reached an historic agreement to save the sage-grouse—an agreement that the last administration ignored and undermined.

From Key West’s high-summer Hemingway Days, in which bearded hopefuls vie for the title of best Papa lookalike, to the annual hunt for the elusive (and imaginary) skunk ape, Florida is renowned for its calendar of curiosities. Now another bizarre date has been added to the list: tag your reptile day. Owners of tegus, a

Black Phoebe. Photo: Marie Jorgensen/Great Backyard Bird Count The federal Clean Water Act was weakened with the implementation of the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, which went into effect in Arizona last summer. It leaves the majority of Arizona’s rivers, streams, and lakes unprotected from pollutant discharges and construction activities, putting people, wildlife, and habitat at

A millionaire trophy hunter has been caught boasting about helping to kill 13,000 doves and blasting a baboon. In a phone call with an undercover investigator, businessman Rob Weir recounted a £2,800 hunting trip to Argentina, saying: ‘There were five of us – one of them was a lady – and we shot 13,000 doves

Today, bowhead whales still transit the fringes of Arctic waters. Polar bears hunt blubbery ringed seals from rafts of ice. And ivory gulls ride gale force winds, plucking juvenile polar cod from the roiling sea. But for how much longer? Despite more than a century of scientific observation, the Central Arctic Ocean remains one of

ISLAND PARK, Idaho— Five conservation organizations are offering rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the illegal shooting of a female grizzly bear in Fremont County, Idaho. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game confirmed Monday that a 6-to-8-week-old cub also died in its den as a result of

Liliana Marcela Ospina Sanchez and Juan Carlos Rubiano Reyes. Photo: Raíces Profundas Turismo Ecológico y Cultural It was pouring rain in Bogotá, Colombia, last Monday when Liliana Marcela Ospina Sanchez first thought about protesting this year’s Global Big Day, when birders across the world tally their sightings on the eBird platform. Ospina, a business owner

Snowy Plover. Photo: Frank Lehman/Audubon Photography Awards The American West is an overwhelmingly vast landscape. It supports great diversity in habitat, birds, and people, but there is one thing that ties it all together – water, and the recognition that we all depend on and value this limited and diminishing resource. Audubon’s national, regional, and

Sandhill Cranes. Photo: Chokchai Leangsuksun/Audubon Photography Awards You might find yourself in more conversations about the birds you are seeing and hearing lately. Billions of birds are flying across our continent on a migration journey that in some cases defies logic. From tiny warblers to Sandhill Cranes, many of the birds you are seeing and

The Italian government has given the green light to hunting of the European turtle dove this autumn, despite the species being listed as “vulnerable” to extinction since 2015. The decision grants the country’s 500,000 licensed hunters permission to shoot a maximum of 15 doves each, which would amount to 7.5m being killed in total, according to Bird

American Goldfinch on Echinacea Purpurea, commonly known as Purple Coneflower. Photo: Will Stuart Audubon’s Bird-Friendly Communities team designated the week of April 19-24 as Bird-Friendly Week to coincide with the Earth Day theme, Restore our Earth. As a result, eight chapters and centers were able to secure PROs (proclamations, resolutions, ordinances) in support of bird-friendly

Wayne LaPierre has cultivated his image as an exemplar of American gun culture, but video of his clumsy marksmanship—and details regarding his Rodeo Drive shopping trips—tells another story. After the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in 2012, Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association, told Americans agitating for new gun regulations,

Image by Oldiefan from Pixabay Birds are everywhere. You find them in your backyard, in the trees, and flying within your field of vision while driving or walking. You hear them sing their songs and make their otherwise friendly bird sounds as they go from one place to another. There’s really little you can do

Western Tanager. Photo: Janet Stevens/Audubon Photography Awards While the majority of our greenhouse gas emissions reductions must come from decarbonizing our electricity, transportation, and industrial sectors, natural climate solutions like forest management, avoided conversion, and reforestation can help us get the rest of the way. Landscapes like forests, grasslands, and wetlands naturally sequester carbon dioxide,

The outlook is bleak for Sumatran rhinos. Decades of poaching and habitat loss have precipitated a steep population decline. Once found across Southeast Asia, from the Himalayan foothills to the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, the critically endangered species, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis, is now only found in Indonesia. Conservationists estimate that fewer than 100 individuals survive

Reddish Egret. Photo: Marjie Goldberg/Audubon Photography Awards Last week, Pres. Biden reached a milestone—on April 28, he completed his first 100 days in office. While rolling out 200 million vaccines and stimulating our economy amidst a global pandemic, President Biden also made a strong commitment to climate and ocean conservation. The actions in his first 100

Lawmakers in Idaho are pushing to drastically reduce wolf numbers in the state, perhaps by as much as over 90%, complementing other US efforts to shrink their population. Idaho’s gray wolf population was recently estimated at 1,556, but sponsors of a bill approved in the state senate last week say that the preferred number of

Great Egret. Photo: Rick Derevan/Audubon Photography Awards Over the past seven months, the board has taken a multipronged approach to better understand the workplace culture of Audubon.   In January we hired attorney Grace Speights and her team at the law firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius to conduct an independent investigation of the allegations in