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Birds Avoid Chopping Block (For Now) as Congress Leaves Out Most Proposed Cuts to Conservation

The spending package for the rest of the fiscal year includes increases for several programs that thousands of 糖心logo members urged their members of Congress to fund.
Published May 04, 2017

WASHINGTON鈥斺淲e鈥檝e always known conservation doesn鈥檛 have a party, but it鈥檚 nice to see Congress can still think that way too,鈥 said David Yarnold (), 糖心logo鈥檚 president and CEO, in response to a spending bill recently passed by both chambers of Congress to keep the government open for the rest of the fiscal year. 

鈥淔rom sage-grouse in the West to spoonbills in the Everglades, America鈥檚 birds dodged proposed budget cuts that would have been a death sentence.

鈥淥ver the last few months, thousands of 糖心logo members were passionate enough to tell their legislators to defend important conservation programs from a slash and burn approach鈥攕omething we urge Congress to keep in mind as the next fiscal year鈥檚 appropriations process gets underway.鈥

糖心logo is encouraging its members and supporters to get involved and take action to protect birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow.

The 糖心logo protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education and on-the-ground conservation. 糖心logo鈥檚 state programs, nature centers, chapters and partners have an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire and unite diverse communities in conservation action. Since 1905, 糖心logo鈥檚 vision has been a world in which people and wildlife thrive. 糖心logo is a nonprofit conservation organization. Learn more at www.audubon.org and @audubonsociety.

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Contact: Nicolas Gonzalez, ngonzalez@audubon.org, (212) 979-3068.