Audubon protects and restores coastal habitat through policy and advocacy, as well as on-the-ground conservation. Healthy coastal ecosystems like wetlands and beaches serve as the first line of defense for coastal communities facing sea-level rise and stronger, more frequent storms.
On World Water Day, Audubon has identified the most important places for birds and people from Missouri to the Gulf Coast.
Audubon’s new conservation strategy identifies the most important places for birds and people in Puget Sound.
Audubon’s new conservation strategy will create a resilient future for the Long Island Sound area.
Building Resilience with Nature
The pioneering Americas Flyways Initiative project offers new promise for both migratory shorebirds and local communities increasingly threatened by flooding in a changing climate.
FEMA reforms must take a smarter, fairer approach that includes nature-based solutions.
In Gary, Indiana, Audubon and partners are working on a vision for restoration rooted in community and climate resilience.
The BEACH Act expands a protected chain of undeveloped coastal areas by nearly 300,000 acres.
Local chapters, universities, Indigenous groups, and Audubon California collaborate to revitalize a shoreline that has long been left to the depredations of industrial action.
New funding will support birds and underserved communities in Indiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Congress must expand on the success of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act to protect people and birds from climate change.
The SHORRE Act will make coastal communities and birds more resilient to climate change.
A dredging operation provides material to restore Crab Bank, an important seabird sanctuary in Charleston Harbor.
Audubon won a lawsuit to prevent sand mining on protected beaches and plans to expand this powerful policy.
This seagrass provides carbon storage, feeding grounds for birds, and a refuge for sea life from more acidic waters.
The Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act accounts for the unjust burden that climate change poses to communities of color.
The Senate Special Committee on the Climate Crisis calls for natural infrastructure solutions to buffer our coasts.
The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis calls for harnessing nature to enhance resilience
Portland Audubon calls on Oregon's congressional delegation to champion the Blue Carbon for Our Planet Act.
Meet some of the leaders driving Gulf restoration in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Twenty years later, restoration and recovery continue in this vulnerable coastal city.
These seabirds capitalized on a restored beach in southwest Louisiana this year after several hurricanes.
Volunteers removed thousands of pounds of hurricane debris and helped southwest Louisiana bounce back from a tough hurricane season.
The Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act will restore and protect coastal areas that buffer communities and birds from climate change.
As Audubon Louisiana assesses damage to its coastal sites, including Rainey Sanctuary, people in Louisiana need help to recover from the storm.
Hundreds of secretive Clapper Rails also mysteriously found on Mississippi beaches.
The devastation to human communities is overwhelming, but the story for birds is more complex.
A tour of some of the affected islands shows the storm’s impacts, but also the surprising resilience of coastal ecosystems.
Audubon’s assessment of the effects of hurricanes will inform restoration efforts that can protect our coasts in the future.
Without coastal restoration that makes beaches less vulnerable to storm surges, climate change will be a threat, and not just from sea level rise.
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