The Important Bird Areas Program is part of a national and international effort to conserve key habitats for birds during their breeding, migratory, and wintering seasons. It also focuses resources on those areas that are most critical to maintaining bird populations.
For this edition of Your Wetlands we offer a Summer Solstice update.
It’s estimated that 52% of the nation’s historic wetlands have been lost but there are many efforts underway to restore them.
Today you’ll learn about a wonderful and very simple way you can help environmental organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Spring is here as is the 4oth anniversary of Earth Day and this is a very appropriate time to think about birds and what we can do to protect them.
When the endangered California Least Tern was discovered nesting at the Alameda Naval Air Station back in the 1970s, a group of concerned community members were mobilized. They formed the Friends of the Alameda Wildlife Refuge to help protect these rare birds.
State and Federal wildlife officials are unveiling a billion dollar plan to restore 15,000 acres of tidal marshland over the next half century. The project is the largest ever of its kind in California and it’s among the biggest habitat restoration efforts in United States. What were once the Cargill Salt Ponds are on their … Read more
