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Audubon Conservation Ranching in California Takes Flight: 2025 Year in Review
December 13, 2025 — Alongside ranchers, chefs, restoration leaders, and bird lovers, we’re growing bird-friendly working lands through community engagement and stewardship.
CA
Colorado River Indian Tribes Take Steps to Help the Colorado River
December 12, 2025 — New tribal resolution will help birds and their habitats.
Western Water
Hummingbird Festival Coming in 2026
December 12, 2025 — Celebrate the annual festival at PRAC
Festivals and Events
One of Connecticut's only native plant nurseries just can't stop growing
December 12, 2025 — On an urban lot in New Haven, UrbanScapes nursery is managed by local youth who are potting, watering, and selling thousands of plants per season.
CT Native Plants
Yuma Ridgway's Rail in marsh
Yuma Ridgway's Rail Conservation
December 12, 2025 — An endangered, secretive marsh bird is at risk as its habitat is disappearing
SOUTHWEST Western Water
Celebrating 2025 Working Lands for Tricolored Blackbirds
December 11, 2025 — Strong farmer and agency partnerships and a new movement study made 2025 a breakthrough year for Tricolored Blackbirds and set the stage for what’s next.
CA
Wood Storks walking through a cow pasture
Funding for Regional Water Quality Projects will Help Farmers, Wildlife, and the Northern Everglades
December 10, 2025 — The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services keeps Everglades restoration momentum moving in the right direction through a new funding program.
FL Everglades
a group of people in a line stand with shovels
A Flurry of Ribbon Cuttings Illustrates Everglades Restoration Milestones
December 10, 2025 — Critical milestone in Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir timeline reached and Lake Hicpochee ribbon cutting.
FL Everglades
cape sable seaside sparrow in the reeds
Saving the Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow
December 10, 2025 — The Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow (Ammospiza maritima mirabilis) is one of the rarest birds in the continental U.S.
FL Everglades
Roseate Spoonbill in flight, carrying nesting material
Central Florida Water Initiative Regional Supply Plan Falls Short in Addressing Region’s Water Woes
December 10, 2025 — At the top of the Greater Everglades watershed, the Central Florida Water Initiative is a multi-county collaboration trying to address the increasing water scarcity of the Greater Orlando area, which because of rapid growth, extreme consumptive use, and overactive drainage, is quickly running out of water.
FL Everglades