The Important Bird Areas Program (IBA) is a global effort to identify and conserve areas that are vital to birds and other biodiversity. By working with Audubon chapters, landowners, public agencies, community groups, and other non-profits, Audubon endeavors to interest and activate a broad network of supporters to ensure that all Important Bird Areas are properly managed and conserved.

The Important Bird Areas Program recognizes that coupled with global warming, habitat loss and fragmentation are the most serious threats facing populations of birds across America and around the world. By working to identify and implement conservation strategies at Important Bird Areas, we hope to minimize the effects that habitat loss and degradation have on birds and other biodiversity.

Unless we can slow the pace of our changing climate and the rapid destruction and degradation of habitat, populations of many birds may decline to dangerously low levels. Please visit the links on the left and above to learn more about Important Bird Areas and how you can help.

Audubon Sanctuary Recognized for International Importance...
Wood Stork George Gentry/USFWS	Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Florida, a Global Important Bird Area for Wood Stork and home of the largest stand of Bald Cypress trees in the world, was recently named a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance. Read more of the story or find out more about the site as an IBA...
World Birdwatch Features the Production of Important Bird Areas Americas...
	In anticipation of the forthcoming publication Important Bird Areas Americas, due out in mid-October, BirdLife International’s World Birdwatch magazine has published a feature article about the work.... download here
Explore Important Bird Areas and the Sagebrush Initiative through Google Earth
Courtesy Audubon Wyoming
158 Important Bird Areas have been identified across the focal region of Audubon’s Sagebrush Initiative. Explore these Important Bird Areas and learn more about the initiative here...
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