The
Important Bird Areas Program (IBA) is a global effort to
identify and conserve areas that are vital to birds and other
biodiversity. By working with Audubon chapters, landowners,
public agencies, community groups, and other non-profits,
Audubon endeavors to interest and activate a broad network of
supporters to ensure that all Important Bird Areas are
properly managed and conserved.
The
Important Bird Areas Program recognizes that coupled with global
warming, habitat loss and fragmentation are the most
serious threats facing populations of birds across America and
around the world. By working to identify and implement
conservation strategies at Important Bird Areas, we hope to
minimize the effects that habitat loss and degradation have on
birds and other biodiversity.
Unless we can slow the
pace of our changing climate and the rapid destruction and
degradation of habitat, populations of many birds may decline
to dangerously low levels. Please visit the links on the left
and above to learn more about Important Bird Areas and how you
can help.
IBA
HIGHLIGHTS
Essential Sites for Waterbird
Conservation Click map below to learn more about the
Waterbirds on Working Lands Project and the Important Bird
Areas that are significant to waterbirds in agricultural
landscapes.
Conserving IBAs for Neotropical
Migrants Click
Here for species and information on the IBAs supporting
them.
Learn more about the IBAs on Lake
Champlain! Five IBAs in VT and NY are highlighted in
videos, as part of a project funded by the Lake Champlain
Basin Program and the Lucy D. Nisbet Foundation. Watch
Now
Green Island Richard Moore, an
outdoor writer, photographer, and reporter, documents
Audubon’s long-term conservation work at Green Island Rookery,
a Texas IBA for Reddish Egret and other species! Watch
Now
