Burrowing Owls. Photo: Sandrine Biziaux Scherson/Audubon Photography Awards

Grasslands, Aridlands, and Forests

We improve habitat quality on privately managed and public lands.

Burrowing Owls. Photo: Sandrine Biziaux Scherson/Audubon Photography Awards

Working on working lands.

Working lands represent one of the best hopes for conservation. These parcels of forests, ranches, and farms add up to roughly a billion acres—or about half the land in the entire Lower 48 states. Audubon collaborates with landowners, land managers, government agencies, and private industry across the hemisphere to increase the quality of habitat on privately managed lands to benefit 20 flagship bird species. Audubon also helps landowners and land managers apply bird-friendly practices on their lands.

Our Areas of Focus

Public Lands Conservation Ranching Natural Climate Solutions Regenerative Agriculture Bird-friendly Maple

Cattle ranching for birds: a song for sustainability

Cattle ranching for birds: a song for sustainability

The new Sustainable Cattle Ranching Playbook recently launched by Audubon Americas shares the ancient and vital connection of people and birds, and best practices to boost productivity while helping birds.

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Bird Friendliness Index Shows Audubon Conservation Ranching is Bringing Grassland Birds Back

Bird Friendliness Index Shows Audubon Conservation Ranching is Bringing Grassland Birds Back

Populations show a jump of more than a third in some areas.

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House Vote to End Lesser-Prairie Chicken Protections Ignores Clear Science

A stripy brown chicken-shaped bird with big orange eyebrows stands on the ground among dead, monochromatic sticks.

House Vote to End Lesser-Prairie Chicken Protections Ignores Clear Science

Removing endangered species protections would put the species on a path toward extinction.

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Ranchlands’ Colorado & Wyoming Ranches Certified as Audubon Bird-Friendly Habitats

A small owl standing in grass holds a worm dangling from its beak and looks at the camera with its bright yellow eye.

Ranchlands’ Colorado & Wyoming Ranches Certified as Audubon Bird-Friendly Habitats

Cattle cater to bird conservation in the Audubon Conservation Ranching program

Working Lands

Protecting our wild heritage.

Public Lands

Protecting our wild heritage across the hemisphere on lands managed for everyone.

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Pathfinder Ranches in Natrona County, Wyoming. Photo: Evan Barrientos/Audubon Rockies

Grasslands, Aridlands, and Forests

Audubon Conservation Ranching

To combat the negative effects of grassland degradations—and to keep grass on the landscape—Audubon has developed the Conservation Ranching Initiative. This market-based conservation approach offers incentives for good grassland stewardship through a certification label on beef products.

Learn More About Conservation Ranching

A field used to farm rice and sugar cane in Villa Rica, Colombia. Photo: Andres Estefan

Silvopasture Across the Hemisphere

Audubon aims to bring bird-friendly practices to 4.7 million hectares of productive lands in Latin America and the Caribbean, increasing habitat and connectivity across landscapes. This will boost the overwinter survival rate of migratory birds while increasing the abundance of local wildlife, including endemic and threatened birds.

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