In this issue: Latest IPCC report offers solutions; Audubon launches new initiative in the Lower Mississippi River region |
| Audubon is excited to celebrate April as National Native Plant Month once again! For the second year in a row, Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Rob Portman (R-OH) co-sponsored the resolution to recognize the importance of native plants to wildlife, people, the environment, and the U.S. economy. Read more | | | | |
| A White-winged Dove perches on a Cholla Cactus. | | | | |
| This year's proposed budget includes investments for clean energy research, a civilian conservation corps, and equity initiatives to help disadvantaged communities. As Congress considers the proposal, Audubon urges increased investment in federal agencies and programs that reduce carbon emissions, conserve our lands and waters, and restore bird populations. Read more | | | | | | |
| Audubon has identified nearly 50 million acres, from Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, as the most important places for birds and people in the Lower Mississippi River. To address climate change and other threats impacting this region, we've created an interactive map of priority habitats to maintain, adapt, or restore. Read more | | | Mississippi River flooding near Vicksburg, Mississippi. | | | | | | |
| The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) addresses how to mitigate the effects of climate change by reducing emissions and slowing the rate of global temperature rise. The report bolsters Audubon's findings that some of the best landscapes for storing carbon naturally are also important to birds' survival. Maintaining and restoring these climate strongholds are key to reducing emissions and conserving wildlife. The IPCC report makes clear that we have the technology and the know-how to potentially halve emissions by 2030, but despite recent progress, we are running out of time to make meaningful change. Read more | | | | Good news! Last week, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee advanced one of Audubon's priority bills, the Recovering America's Wildlife Act, with a bipartisan vote of 15 – 5. The bill will help state and tribal wildlife agencies proactively conserve vulnerable species, like the Golden-Winged Warbler and Black Tern. More than 25,000 Audubon members like you have contacted Congress in support of the bill. We need to keep the pressure on! It still needs to be passed by the full U.S. Senate and in the U.S. House of Representatives. Take action | | | | | |
| Photos from top: Mick Thompson; Chuck Wood/Audubon Photography Awards; Justin Wilkens/Shutterstock; Benjamin Cammarata/Audubon Photography Awards (left); Diana Whiting/Audubon Photography Awards (right) | | | | |
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