Conservation

May 24, 2019 — After two years and a lot of hard work, a student-run campaign to make the Black-crowned Night-Heron the city's mascot sees success.

May 23, 2019 — The dramatic ups and downs of a Piping Plover family in Gloucester, Massachusetts, show what it takes to protect a threatened species.

May 22, 2019 — An official report says that South Florida's wading birds had an even better 2018 than we thought.

May 20, 2019 — Conservationists recently discovered a Colombian brush-finch only known by museum specimens. Now they’re racing to save it from habitat loss.

May 17, 2019 — The EPA blocked the Yazoo Pumps proposal in 2008, saying it would devastate bird-rich habitat. Now the agency is reconsidering.

May 10, 2019 — The Trump administration paints a too-rosy picture of how oil and gas development will impact Alaska’s coastal plain ecology, its own experts say.

May 10, 2019 — I traveled to southern Texas to see a wintering population of the birds now 500-strong—a major comeback from just 15 cranes in 75 years.

May 10, 2019 — Last summer ended in calamity for a nesting colony at PG&E's Lake Almanor. Now an Audubon chapter is fighting back to ensure that birds and locals get all the hydration they need.

May 09, 2019 — Some species change locales by merely moving between higher and lower elevations. Here are four examples of altitudinal migrants in the U.S.

May 08, 2019 — Renowned biologist Thomas Lovejoy talks climate change and explains why restoring ecosystems plays a crucial part in curbing rising temperatures.