WASHINGTON, D.C. – National conservation groups focusing on the restoration of coastal Louisiana are hailing today’s announcement by federal officials that the state bird of Louisiana, the Brown Pelican, is being removed from the Endangered Species List.
NEW ORLEANS - President Obama cited the need for Louisiana wetlands restoration during his Oct. 15 visit to New Orleans while Audubon's Dr. Paul Kemp and other environmental leaders met with top White House environmental adviser Nancy Sutley.
Audubon is working with Mississippi State University to document the economic value of birding and other forms of nature tourism. You can help by taking the online Great River Birding Trail survey.
ST. LOUIS, MO - Twelve pairs of federally endangered Interior Least Terns have nested on an artificial island within the Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary, where the emerging Audubon Center at Riverlands will be sited.