In this issue: Secretary of the Interior visits Audubon Center, Update on efforts to halt Ambler Road, News from the Flyways, and more
| A landmark bill in Utah would address water challenges facing Great Salt Lake by establishing a water trust to bring more water into the drying lake. Millions of migratory birds—like the American Avocet, Ruddy Duck, and Cinnamon Teal—rely on North America's largest salt lake and its surrounding wetlands. Audubon testified in support of the bill (HB 410), and it unanimously passed the state legislature and has been sent to the Governor for signature. Read more | | | | |
| In a decade, 9 percent of all species worldwide could be at risk of total extinction, according to the latest report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report summarizes the latest knowledge on present-day and projected impacts of climate change on people and the environment, as well as how countries and communities can adapt to those changes. Read more | | | Thaidene Nëné National Park Reserve in northern Canada. | | | | | | |
| Audubon recently hosted a roundtable event with Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and other federal, tribal, state, and local leaders to discuss the health of our western waters at Rio Salado Audubon Center in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Read more | | | Secretary Deb Haaland (3rd from left) and Audubon staff on a tour of the Rio Salado Audubon Center. | | | | | | |
On the first Clean Energy Initiative webinar of 2022, Audubon experts discussed why a clean energy transition is important to protect birds from climate change—and how advocates like you can get involved. In this latest session, we talked about how the Clean Energy Initiative supports development of properly sited and responsibly managed wind projects. Watch the recording here
| | | | Last month, more than 15,700 Audubon members like you wrote to urge the U.S. Department of the Interior and Army Corps of Engineers to halt plans for the 211-mile Ambler Road, which would cut through the undeveloped southern Brooks Range foothills and Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve in Alaska to allow future mining development. We're pleased to report that the Department of the Interior asked in a court filing to send the right-of-way decision back to the agencies to address deep legal flaws in the analysis of impacts to subsistence and cultural resources, but are disappointed that it ignored a number of other legal errors. Read more | | | | | |
| Photos from top: Ben Knoot/Audubon Photography Awards; Pat Kane; Corey Lycopolus/Audubon Southwest; Evelyn Garcia/Audubon Photography Awards (left); Mick Thompson (right) | | | | |
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