Birds are powerful indicators of ecosystem health and climate impacts, and Audubon's rigorous science helps decision-makers understand what's at stake and what solutions will work. Audubon's science-based, hemispheric partnerships are driving scalable conservation victories and accelerating progress toward global climate and biodiversity goals.
COP30, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, opens November 10 in Belém, Brazil. For two weeks representatives from more than 190 countries, along with Indigenous Peoples’ organizations, international bodies, and conservation leaders from around the world will work to advance solutions that halt and reverse global climate change—and strengthen our collective ability to adapt to its inevitable impacts. The decisions made in Belém will help determine our ability to protect both the birds and the planet we love for generations to come.
Audubon’s delegation will be active throughout COP30, ensuring that birds—and the ecosystems they rely on—remain central to climate discussions.
The birds are showing us the way—now it’s up to us to follow.
Quiet Canopies: Climate Change Vulnerabilities and Solutions for Birds and People
November 11, 13:00 to 14:00 local time | Nature 4 Climate Pavilion
Audubon experts will preview an upcoming new report on how conserving Latin American forests will protect climate strongholds for birds, and how this science helps target effective action to protect birds and people in the face of a changing climate.
Acoustics, Birds, and Carbon: The 'A, B, Cs' of measuring and monitoring biodiversity co-benefits of climate action
November 12, 13:45-14:45 local time | Forest Pavilion
Livestream: UN Forest Pavilion YouTube Channel
This panel discussion will cover how acoustic monitoring technologies are being used by major development banks, First Nations, ranchers, and many more to assess changes in bird biodiversity throughout North and Latin America, and how this approach could enhance the conservation of landscapes that naturally store carbon, and reduce emissions.
Spotlight on Panama’s Blue Carbon Program
November 13, 14:00-15:00 local time | Inter-American Development Bank Pavilion
Experts from Audubon, Panama and the Inter-American Development Bank will highlight efforts to conserve and restore Panama's mangroves and other coastal ecosystems, safeguarding important carbon stores and bird habitat and reducing storm impact on communities.
Nature in 2035 NDCs: Catalyzing Synergistic Action for Nature
Monday, November 17, 12:30-13:30 local time | NDC Partnership Pavilion
As members of the N4C coalition, Audubon experts will discuss the central role nature plays in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) that are ambitious, comprehensive, and implementable and that are accelerating progress towards a safer climate future.
Scaling Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Across the Americas
November 18, 13:00-14:00 local time | Nature4Climate Pavilion
Audubon, BirdLife and partners will showcase cutting-edge policy and finance frameworks like Conserva Aves and the Americas Flyways Initiative that are scaling climate solutions across the hemisphere, while delivering benefits for people and biodiversity.
Climate change poses a risk for Latin America's threatened forest birds.
This month, Audubon experts will travel to the heart of the Amazon rainforest—not to study birds in the wild (at least not this time), but to...
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Audubon unveils a framework that prioritizes biodiversity, natural climate solutions, and local community engagement in order to protect birds and people.
Audubon connects birds and conservation action at IUCN's World Conservation Congress.
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Audubon sent a delegation to IUCN World Conservation Congress, a once-every-four-years gathering of nature conservation experts, leaders and decision-makers from around the world, hosted this year October 9-15 in Abu Dhabi.
Our delegates hosted two presentations. “Soaring Seas: Seabirds and Emerging Opportunities for International Marine Conservation” featured Project Puffin—a rare conservation success built over five decades of dedication that has successfully restored Atlantic Puffins and other seabirds to the Gulf of Maine, and is evolving to tackle new global challenges through science, policy, and collaboration.
“It Starts With Birds” built on Audubon’s landmark Survival by Degrees report—which revealed how climate change threatens two-thirds of North American bird species—to introduce a forthcoming study that expands this research across Latin America, spotlighting vulnerable forest birds and the ecosystems they depend on, while underscoring how science-based tools like climate strongholds guide conservation priorities and help align biodiversity conservation with natural climate solutions.
The United Nations Biodiversity Conference of Parties, or COP16, takes place every two years. The 2024 conference in Cali, Colombia, put greater attention on nature and biodiversity within the larger environmental and climate movement in the buildup to COP30 in Brazil. Approximately 200 countries attended and presented their national action plans for meeting the 30x30 conservation commitments made at the previous biodiversity conference in 2022. The National Audubon Society and our partners took part in several events throughout the conference.
A study by Audubon shows how the most important sites for the conservation of migratory, endemic and globally threatened birds in Colombia overlap 85% with important sites for water regulation.
For the past year, Colombia has developed a strategy to protect its nearly 2,000 birds species. Community-led bird sightings play a key role in achieving this goal and also contribute to the Global Biodiversity Framework.
Mangroves cover an impressive 46,284 square kilometers of the Americas. However, they remain undervalued despite their vital role: This vast mangrove landscape is a privileged habitat for biodiversity and a favored site for thousands of migratory and endemic birds.
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