Also in this issue: 20K+ actions to help sage-grouse | Hemispheric partnership for bird conservation
| AUDUBON ADVISORY June 2024 | | | | |
| Both people and birds rely on a healthy ocean and coastal environment for survival. Scientists estimate that there are 300 million fewer seabirds today than in the early 1950s, a decline of 70 percent. Audubon is working to reverse this decline by supporting the places and food seabirds and shorebirds rely on. Read more | | | | |
| A year ago, the Supreme Court drastically weakened federal Clean Water Act protections for waterways across the country. At Audubon, we continue to work at the state and local levels to shore up protections for wetlands. Read more | | | | | | |
| Last month, the House Agriculture Committee passed a version of the Farm Bill that would help farmers and ranchers implement voluntary conservation efforts on working lands. Unfortunately, the bill also repeals parts of the Inflation Reduction Act that support farmers, ranchers, and land managers working to help solve the climate crisis. Read more | | | | | | |
| The Canadian government announced a $15-million investment in Birds Canada. This funding will support the health of ecosystems in Latin America and the Caribbean through the bird and biodiversity conservation partnership Conserva Aves. Read more | | | | | | |
| Last month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced its Grid Expansion Rule, which will help modernize how the U.S. connects to and transmits power along the nation's grid. The rulemaking improves transmission planning processes to support a clean energy transition in ways that are cost-effective for communities and beneficial for wildlife. According to a study from the Department of Energy, the United States must double its existing regional transmission capacity to meet its clean energy goals by 2035. Read our full statement | | | | Populations of Greater Sage-Grouse and the habitat they rely on have been in steep decline for more than five decades. In March, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) unveiled a long-awaited draft management plan for 67 million acres of public lands that sustain sage-grouse, along with more than 350 plants and animals of conservation concern. Our Audubon supporters rose to the occasion: More than 20,000 individuals submitted comments to the BLM urging them to protect the sagebrush ecosystem to save Greater Sage-Grouse before it's too late. Thank you! | | | | | |
| Photos from top: Derrick Jackson/Audubon Photography Awards; Liz Eudy/Audubon Photography Awards; Cheryl Johnson/Audubon Photography Awards; Simon d'Entremont/Audubon Photography Awards; Gary Grossman/Audubon Photography Awards (left); Evan Barrientos/Audubon Rockies (right) | | | | |
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