National Audubon Society | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-18

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National Audubon Society


00:02:06 1 History
00:02:15 1.1 Development of Audubon societies
00:05:44 1.2 Bird protection
00:07:44 1.3 Refuges
00:08:48 1.4 Field guides
00:09:59 1.5 DDT, whaling, and politics
00:12:23 1.6 Television specials
00:13:14 1.7 Audubon Medal
00:13:41 2 List of awardees
00:13:53 3 Current activities
00:16:07 3.1 Sanctuaries and nature centers
00:16:55 3.2 Drilling for natural gas
00:17:56 3.3 Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership
00:18:53 3.4 Women in Conservation Program
00:19:47 3.5 Climate change report
00:20:21 4 Leadership
00:21:12 5 iAudubon/i magazine



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The National Audubon Society (Audubon) is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation. Located in the United States and incorporated in 1905, Audubon is one of the oldest of such organizations in the world and uses science, education and grassroots advocacy to advance its conservation mission. It is named in honor of John James Audubon, a Franco-American ornithologist and naturalist who painted, cataloged, and described the birds of North America in his famous book Birds of America published in sections between 1827 and 1838.
The society has nearly 500 local chapters, each of which is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization voluntarily affiliated with the National Audubon Society, which often organize birdwatching field trips and conservation-related activities.  It also coordinates the Christmas Bird Count held each December in the U.S., a model of citizen science, in partnership with Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the Great Backyard Bird Count each February.  Together with Cornell, Audubon created eBird, an online database for bird observation.  The National Audubon Society also has many global partners to help birds that migrate beyond the U.S.'s borders, including BirdLife International based in Great Britain, Bird Studies Canada, and many partners in Latin America and in the Caribbean. Audubon's International Alliances Program (IAP) brings together people throughout the Western Hemisphere to work together to implement conservation solutions at Important Birds Areas (IBA's).
The society's main offices are in New York City and Washington, D.C., and it has state offices in about 24 states.  It also owns and operates a number of nature centers open to the public, located in urban settings, including New York City, Joplin, Phoenix, Dallas, and Los Angeles, as well as at bird refuges and other natural areas. Audubon Centers help to forge lifelong connections between people and nature, developing stewards for conservation among young and diverse communities.