Conservation

September 17, 2019 — The decision to open the refuge's entire coastal plain to development, combined with climate change, 'may result in extinction' for some birds.

September 13, 2019 — In his twenties the ornithologist had an audacious idea: to restore puffins to the Maine coast. Upon his retirement he reflects on how he pulled it off.

September 12, 2019 — A new study on wild sparrows found that one of the most widely used neonicotinoid pesticides puts bird populations at risk.

September 09, 2019 — The fires are not natural to the ecosystem—and add fuel to mounting threats that birds already face in the region.

September 05, 2019 — New data show the imperiled bird’s numbers in a nosedive as the federal government continues to ease protections and sell off habitat.

August 30, 2019 — In Congress, state legislatures, and some of our biggest cities, policies to prevent deadly collisions are gaining ground.

August 27, 2019 — Satellite tags are helping us better understand the nesting behaviors and migrations of these agile raptors, which hunt, drink, and bathe on the wing.

August 23, 2019 — After wildfires, grasslands and deciduous woodlands are replacing evergreen boreal forest and transforming the state's terrain and ecology.

August 22, 2019 — The more than 10 million birds that rely on this land will have a protected home to return to each spring for years to come.

August 21, 2019 — The Interior Department recently approved a project previously deemed too great an environmental risk in the bird-rich Boundary Waters wilderness.