Duval Audubon Society

Serving Clay, Duval, and Nassau Counties

Duval Audubon Society President Pete Johnson provides a wonderful overview of the value DAS brings to our community. Click here to watch the video!

 

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Sat, May 18th
Florida Native Plant Society 2013 Conference
Sat, May 18th, @8:00am - 05:00PM
Wild Amelia Nature Festival
Sat, May 18th, @8:00am - 12:00PM
Birds and Breakfast: DAS Annual Picnic

DAS featured on City of Jacksonville's JAXPARKS TV! PDF Print E-mail

Duval Audubon Society President Pete Johnson provides a wonderful overview of the value DAS brings to our community. Click here to watch the video!

 

 
Huguenot Memorial Park EA Comments Needed PDF Print E-mail

The Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is currently accepting public comment on its proposal to renew its lease at Huguenot Memorial Park to the City of Jacksonville. Your voice is neededto help protect one of the last strongholds for beach-dependent birds on Florida’s Atlantic Coast.

The site currently supports a large colony of Royal Terns and had animportant historic population of Gull-billed Terns, Black Skimmers, and American Oystercatchers. Declining Red Knots depend on Huguenot's beach during migration, and the park is part of a designated critical wintering habitat unit for federally Threatened Piping Plovers.

Make a difference right now by sending a letter in support of these iconic, rare, and declining species!

Go to this Link for more background information and quick/easy letter template and delivery option:  Audubon Florida Alert 

 
Audubon's Roadmap for Hemispheric Conservation PDF Print E-mail

It's a big challenge, but one that must be met if we are to reduce our declining bird populations. National Audubon now has a strategic plan for addressing our unprecedented environmental challenges. The focus is protecting our migratory flyways of the Americas and for Northeast Florida, in particular, the Atlantic Flyway.

  We will concentrate our efforts on five conservation strategies:

  • Putting working lands to work for birds & people
  • Sharing our seas and shores
  • Saving Important Bird Areas
  • Shaping a healthy climate and clean energy future
  • Creating bird-friendly communities

 

  To learn more about the tasks a hand, download the complete plan here. Audubon Strategic Plan 2012-2015

 
ACTION ALERT: Your voice is needed! PDF Print E-mail
Your voice is needed next week to help protect Ft. Matanzas! In January 2010, the park ended public beach driving which threatened the safety of some of our most imperiled species. Now the 2012 draft management plan leaves the door open to reinstate beach driving putting these bird species at risk again.

Public hearings will be held on July 23 and 24th 6-8:30pm at Lohman Auditorium, Whitney Lab for Marine Bioscience, 9505 Ocean Shore Blvd, St. Augustine, FL (Marineland). Please attend! Click here for information on how to help birds at Ft. Matanzas, then contact Monique Borboen at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
 
Speak Up for Silver Springs and Florida's Waters PDF Print E-mail

 Click here to sign the Speak Up Petition


Or Print the Petition and return signed copies to the Florida Conservation Coalition.

Click here to read a  New York Times Article on the movement to save Silver Springs and the Florida

Finally, check out an excellent editorial by Ocala Star-Banner editor Brad Rogers who attended the event.
 
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