

Coastal Resilience
Climate change threatens birds and people on our coasts.
Under Audubon’s coastal resilience initiative, we are working to protect and restore coastal habitat through natural infrastructure policies and projects to reverse the declines in shorebird populations and to protect coastal communities from the impacts of a changing climate. Natural infrastructure, including wetlands, living shorelines, eelgrass, and barrier islands, serve as the first line of defense for coastal communities facing stronger, more frequent storms and sea-level rise.
Audubon works at the federal level to support and expand policies that preserve and protect undeveloped coastal ecosystems, like the Coastal Barrier Resources Act, and to ensure that the federal government includes natural infrastructure in annual spending programs meant to improve our country's infrastructure and recover from national disasters. We advocate for those investments to be prioritized in underserved communities that are overburdened by pollution and that face disproportionate risks from climate impacts.
Additionally, Audubon state offices are working to design and implement on-the-ground natural infrastructure projects in communities, including projects to rebuild barriers island in the Gulf of Mexico and South Carolina, build living shorelines and restore oyster reefs in North Carolina and Connecticut, restore marshes and beneficially use dredged sediments in Long Island Sound, and the San Francisco and Chesapeake bays.

Conservation strategies for coastal resilience

Our Blueprint for a Resilient Lower Mississippi River

Our Blueprint for a Healthy, More Resilient Puget Sound

A Blueprint for a Healthier Coast in New York and Connecticut
Coastal Resilience News

Audubon and Partners Launch Community-driven Climate Projects in Three States

Our Best Defense Against Hurricanes Is to Modernize This Coastal Law

Crucial Coastal Bill Gains Momentum in Congress

One Good Turn Deserves Another

A Decisive Victory for the Most Important Coastal Law You’ve Never Heard of

Putting Wetlands to Work for Disaster Recovery
Rebuilding and protecting our coasts for birds and people
Coastal Resilience and Disaster Recovery

A Record-breaking Year of Storms Calls for Big Investments on Our Coasts

We’re Just Now Figuring Out the Toll of Hurricane Laura

How Hurricane Michael Affected the Florida Panhandle's Coastal Landscape

On the Ground with Audubon Texas After Hurricane Harvey

Five Things We Learned in the Aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma

Tropical Storm Cindy Just Wiped Out Most of the Shorebird Chicks in the Gulf
Birds That Depend on Resilient Coasts
Wilson's Plover

Brown Pelican

Reddish Egret

Least Tern

Red Knot

Piping Plover

Sanderling

Royal Tern
