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At the same time, we provide the benefits of healthy ecosystems, such as clean water and recreational opportunities, to communities long overlooked by the conservation world.

Audubon Great Lakes Audubon on Campus is another critical touchpoint where we can spark a love for conservation and empower young people to enter the green workforce.

We are using these tracking data to generate interactive maps that show the full annual cycle of bird species, as well as the conservation challenges along their routes, from light pollution to land conversion and power lines.

BIRDS BEYOND BORDERS An effective conservation strategy means going wherever birds lead us to defend the places they need throughout their full annual cycle.

CONSERVATION THAT SPANS CONTINENTS Audubon launched Conserva Aves, a coalition that uses MBI data to identify areas of vital importance to birds in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Alongside our core partner organizations—which include BirdLife International, American Bird Conservancy, and RedLAC (Latin American and Caribbean Network of Environmental Funds)—we will leverage our expertise in policy, science, and fundraising to help local organizations that are working to establish land protections and management in these key areas.

Through the Conserva Aves coalition, we are structuring a fund to support local conservation organizations working to protect and manage these areas of great importance to birds.

Conserva Aves will secure matching funding from local sources to further leverage the investments and ensure sustainability.

The first request for proposals to several local conservation partners in Latin America will be issued in May 2022.

Along the way, Whimbrels use critical coastal and wetland habitat in the Central Valley, the Colorado River Delta, and Panama.

wetland health in the Central Valley, and in the Colorado River Delta to make sure water policies take the needs of the Whimbrel—and many other birds—into account.

A bird-watching platform on La Semilla farm in Colombia overlooks an area of rich biodiversity included in a conservation agreement between Audubon and the land’s owner, Daniel Escobar Arbeláez.

5x more carbon is stored in an acre of boreal forest than an acre of tropical forest.

OF BIODIVERSITY Data from the Migratory Bird Initiative have helped reveal the critical importance of North America’s boreal forest.

One of the most biologically unique ecosystems on the planet, the boreal constitutes remaining intact forest and supports nearly 400 bird species and some of the last healthy populations of the world’s large mammal species.

But the boreal remains under constant threat from threat from the logging, mining, and oil and gas industries.

In response, Audubon has created the Boreal Forest Conservation Initiative to protect hundreds of millions of acres of this vital landscape within the tradi tional territories of hundreds of Indigenous governments across Canada.

The initiative focuses on three key areas: increasing awareness of and support for boreal conservation; developing science that highlights the conservation values and priorities for the boreal forest; and collaborating with Indigenous governments and communities to advance their conservation and land stewardship goals.

Research has shown that the methods used in Canada by Indigenous Peoples to steward their ancestral lands and waters are at least as effective at protecting and maintaining biodiversity as Western methods.

By partnering and providing support in communications, outreach, and advocacy, Audubon has helped amplify the voices and expand the impact of Indigenous conservation leaders.

at Audubon In Conservation Officer—the first Black person to hold this title in Audubon’s history.

Since then, he has served as Vice President and Executive Director of Audubon Dakota and Vice President for Audubon Conservation Ranching.

A Great Gray Owl makes a landing in a snowy Minnesota forest.

Nearly all of this regal bird’s breeding habitat is located in the boreal forest.

This iconic bird is increasingly threatened by energy development and the effects of invasive plants in much of its remaining range.

“For conservation organizations to be truly equitable, every other intern they hire today should be BIPOC.

Aves’ robust scientific capacities, we aim to support communities’ conservation goals and help translate them into action,” says Zimmerman.

As head of her local land trust in Boxford, Massachusetts, Grigg helped to secure almost open space—lakes, streams, hedges, forest, meadow, wetland, and mixed habitat—to designate as a wildlife sanctuary.

As a national board member from Audubon’s international conservation work.

With this holistic view of bird conservation, Ben is a lead funder of Conserva Aves.

“This program is the most significant thing I’ve seen at Audubon when it comes to international conservation,” Ben adds.

Through live webcams, documentary films, and educational programming, the organization inspires people to engage with nature and—Charlie hopes—protect it.

In the years since, explore.org has been an important supporter of Audubon’s work at the Seabird Institute and at Rowe Sanctuary along Nebraska’s Platte River—the site of one of nature’s most magnificent spectacles.

Participants at the Quill Festival look out over the water at Richardson Bay Audubon Center in California.

By protecting the web of life that represents America’s richest veins of biodiversity, Audubon is safeguarding our great natural heritage for future generations, preserving our shared quality of life, and fostering a healthier environment.

We collaborate with partners to scale nature-based solutions, foster grassroots actions on climate change issues, and provide conservation policy and capacity development.

Campus Chapters Audubon is on of conservationists and supporting them as they engage in conservation and advocacy.

and a network of international partners that serve as key contributors to a shared vision of bird and habitat conservation across the Americas.

By connecting the work of the Audubon network—chapters, campus chapters, centers and sanctuaries, global, national and state staff, volunteers, U.S. and international partners, and other supporters along each of the flyways of the Americas—Audubon weaves a seamless web of conservation across the hemisphere.

2021 Annual Report 2 Earth Island Institute is a nonprofit environmental organization and fiscal sponsor to more than seventy-five projects working in the areas of conservation, energy and climate, women?s environmental leadership, international and Indigenous communities, sustainability and community resilience, and more.

Founded in legendary environmentalist David Brower, Earth Island Institute is one of the leading environmental activist organizations in the United States.

But thankfully our Project Suppor t Program staff is a talented and resilient bunch, and our projects are not to be deterred in their efforts to protect the environment and build a better world.

We held our annual Brower Yout h Awards program with an inspirational virtual event that successfully conveyed the amazing work of this next generation of young environmental leaders from around North America.

Our news magazine, Earth Island Journal, kept up its bold reporting on a wide range of environmental issues both in the United States and abroad, including the ways in which climate change is already manifesting around us, how regulatory systems often prioritize corporations over people, and how brave environmental activists are fighting powerful interests to preserve their lands and communities.

sharing resources and benefiting from synergistic exchanges of experience and energy.

Earth Island has stayed strong and unwavering in our commitment to stepping up to reverse the perilous environmental course we are all on.

5 MISSION STATEMENT Earth Island supports environmental action projects and celebrates the next generation of leaders in order to achieve solutions to the environmental crises threatening the survival of life on Earth.

Earth Island?s Project Support Program provides essential services and support for new and established projects working across a spectrum of bold environmental initiatives.

Indigenous technicians walked on flora, fauna, socioeconomics, and land use.

Using its expertise in establishing living schoolyard programs, Green Schoolyards Am er ica founded and led the National COVID-large-scale effort to help schools around the country teach outdoors as a way to address the pandemic and reduce virus transmission.

and ?fuels reduction,? and advocates for science-based alternatives that protect forests and mitigate climate change while also keeping communities safe.

he Cit y continues to facilitate access to the outdoors in San Francisco, while also participating in the city?s Climate Action Plan, creating a Climate Career Corps program, organizing eight educational nature walks, servicing 38 garden clients, and planting 500 native plants.

Public Lands Media continued reporting on topics critical to the preservation of public lands, such as wildfire ecology, livestock grazing, and forest service policies.

In partnership with Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda, Viva Sier ra Gorda created a carbon-footprint campaign that directly supports local landowners and communities working to protect the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in Mexico.

Advancing Wild Her it age?s work of advocating for the protection of primary forests in the United States and throughout the world, the project?s Chief Scientist, Dominick DellaSala, has been a sought-after spokesperson on the issue for several major media outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Wild Heritage also became a key advisor to the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin, a new initiative endorsed by the IUCN World Conservation Congress to protect the Amazon by 2025.

ÉnergieRich is developing a permanent Center for Innovation to bring together engineers from West Africa and the United States to work with communities across West Africa on renewable-energy systems.

Although the pandemic severely curtailed their ability to gather for tree-planting events, Richm ond Trees maintained a group of dedicated volunteers to care for the trees already planted, contributing to climate solutions in their community.

CalCAN also won improvements that will make it easier for small and limited-resource farmers to apply to an on-farm water-conservation grant program, developed new partnerships to advance agricultural policy solutions to wildfire mitigation, and continued the growth of a national network of farmer-centered organizations focused on passing healthy soils policy.

Cast anea Fellowship supported and developed programming for its working at the intersections of food, health, environment, agriculture, regional economies, and community development.

program, while also hosting a successful Fall Seed Swap and the Living Soil Awards to honor farmers who are cultivating healthy soils while growing food for the community.

Com m unit y Resilience With its activities rooted in the One Health approach, a framework embraced by leading global health organizations that recognizes the interconnection of people, animals, plants, and their shared environment, EcoVet Global has redoubled its commitment to preventing the next pandemic by addressing animal health and welfare needs (domestic and wildlife) as a key component to community and ecosystem resilience.

Green Life continued to organize and connect with frontline organizations and reentry service providers to support a collaborative network of care for those impacted by incarceration and Covid-19.

In addition, reentry leaders and local youth volunteers worked on several successful environmental-service projects.

Transit ion Ear t h increased awareness of the effects of unsustainable growth and its impacts on people and the planet via online meetings, bringing people together to advocate for a global systems change that will enable a shift to a sustainable planet for all.

Environm ent al Education All One Ocean transitioned its Ocean Warriors youth leadership initiative to a virtual program for underserved communities, educated 75 students in a surf camp about the destructive impact of litter on our oceans and waterways, built 15 new beach cleanup stations, and performed 22 beach cleanups, which were critical during the pandemic when beaches had an uptick in users and, consequently, an increase in trash.

Through its Exploring a Sense of Place project, the Children in Nat ure Collaborat ive created a successful video that encourages people to connect with nature where they live.

Conservat ion Kids continues to connect young adults with the environment through photography.

In partnership with classroom teachers, the project created virtual lessons with experiments and investigations that could be done at home, and encouraged outdoor activities to help students connect with nature in their local watersheds and take much-needed screen-time breaks.

West Count y DIGS has worked hard during the pandemic to keep its students in touch with nature and with health, wellness, and nutrition by digging deeper into online learning.

The project increased its social media education and gave away a greenhouse full of plants to more than families, sowing seeds of hope in a school district in which students face poverty, racial tension, and food deserts.

As a college freshman trying to explore different subject areas, your magazine has been amazing in introducing me to wildlife conservation and organizations in a fun and interactive way," said a student reader.

Environm ent al Justice Mapping for Environm ent al Just ice produced a map of Colorado indicating that communities of color breathe nearly twice as much diesel pollution and are likely to live near a Superfund site than white communities.

Jam es, a new project with Earth Island, has been fighting to prevent Formosa Plastics from building its next petrochemical plant in a community that has already suffered its share of polluting industries.

a ?victory for environmental justice,? said Rise St. James Director Sharon Lavigne.

In times that desperately call for wisdom and insight, Sacred Land Film Project turned to its rich trove of materials and launched the Sacred Land Audio Archive, a series of short outtakes and interviews with Indigenous leaders and leading environmentalists sharing their thoughts on traditional sacred lands, human rights, and the environment.

Acting in kinship and building community in order to seed solutions based on respect, honor, and mutual care, Seeding Sovereignt y launched the Community Defense and Land Liberation program to get security gear and essential legal self-defense training to frontline environmental protectors; filed a landmark case against the federal government on a right to wilderness; established a program to assist in the healing process of residential-school survivors amid the recent tragic discovery of thousands of murdered Indigenous children during the last century; created Medicine Wheels to meet the mental health needs of Indigenous and BIPOC youths who have been worn down and isolated by the pandemic quarantine; and opened Ancestral Acres Farm and Garden to grow food sovereignty and distribute health nutrition to food-insecure communities.

Rest orat ion was finally able to apply their engineering designs to a critical creek-restoration project in the Los Padres National Forest.

featuring interviews on the topic of water with a diverse group of expert guests, including chemists, artists, physicists, biologists, and others.

The project is building alliances with San Francisco city leaders in the effort to install fountains throughout the city and reduce the need for plastic water bottles.

The ALERT Project prevailed in its lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a landmark decision requiring the EPA to update its decades-old regulations on the use of toxic chemical dispersants in oil spill responses.

the most comprehensive piece of legislation on plastic pollution to date.

Working to raise awareness of toxic fertilizers and the impact of degraded soils on climate change, Save Our Soil continues to participate in events and collaborate with others to keep communities safe.

Most recently, Save Our Soil reviewed Michigan?s fertilizer regulations, helping to develop a road map for those working on sustainable agriculture issues in Michigan.

Rapt ors Are t he Solut ion was instrumental in the passage of the California Ecosystems Protection Act, curbing the use of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides, which have been linked to deaths of nontargeted wildlife such as mountain lions, foxes, and owls.

We must solve the democracy crisis before we solve the environmental crisis.

With the pandemic affecting international tourism, Guias Unidos helped their local tour guides implement education and conservation activities on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua, by creating an adopt-a-tree program at the request of the kids that have attended the project?s environmental education classes in the past.

Working with and for the people of East Africa to build lasting protection of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, Serenget i Wat ch developed a program to supply Maasai women with beehives, the honey from which they sell, providing a source of income, empowerment, and enthusiasm.

Wom en for Wildl ife supported the launch of Women for Conservation Botswana and cohosted its first leadership workshop for 15 Indigenous women in that country.

In its mission to empower women?s leadership, Wom en?s Ear t h All iance hosted its third annual Indonesia Grassroots Accelerator, catalyzing the efforts of leaders, from 15 regions, who are protecting their communities and ecosystems from environmental and climate threats like palm oil extraction, plastic pollution, and sea level rise.

Fiscal year projects on STEAM education, industrial air pollution, climate change solutions, environmental activism, community gardens, and healing space for incarcerated youth.

For nearly four decades, Earth Island Journal has been publishing articles that offer a unique, wide-angle perspective, which strives to make the connections between the environment and human rights and social justice issues.

Over the course of more than issues, the Journal has broken ground on covering critical environmental topics and received a number of media awards for excellence in journalism.

In fiscal year issues, including a cover story about a grassroots movement against a proposed lithium mine in Nevada calling attention to green tech?s reliance on extractive industries and practices; a dispatch about an anti-science movement in Puglia, Italy, that has stymied efforts to combat a disease devastating the region?s ancient olive trees; and an award-winning investigation into how a loophole in California's cap-and-trade program is allowing a Native Alaskan timber company to sell carbon offsets for forests that were likely never intended for logging.

Online, the Journal highlighted the work of activists fighting fossil fuel companies and demanding bold climate action; reported on the ongoing persecution of apex predators in the U.S.; and dedicated a large share of its coverage to issues at the intersection of race, gender, poverty, and environment.

The magazine?s work has been recognized by awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the San Francisco Press Club, and the John Burroughs Association.

Earth Island Advocates uses the law to fight for justice for the planet?s beautiful and varied ecosystems and inhabitants.

With the combined knowledge and expertise of our grassroots project network and the pro bono resources of law firms, legal clinics, and nonprofit organizations, Earth Island Advocates is achieving tangible results for the environment.

At the heart of AMC’s mission, conservation and recreation go hand in hand, underpinned by the understanding of the natural resources we cherish.

Center for Outdoor Learning and Leadership AMC continued to develop its reimagined Center for Outdoor Learning and Leadership (COLL), dedicated to providing training and knowledge to pursue your own outdoor adventures through the values of safety, conservation, and equitable access to the outdoors.