The National Audubon Society is an American not-for-profit environmental organization dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats. The National Audubon Society (NAS) is one of the largest and oldest conservation organizations in the world. Founded in New York City in February 1886, its original purpose was to protect American birds from destruction for the headgear trade. Many species of birds were killed and sold as ornaments for women's hats and hats, as well as for other clothing.
The first conservation battle waged by the NAS was the Snowy Egret, a white bird that waded through marshes and whose long feathers were in high demand. The group played a decisive role in securing the passage of the New York Bird Act in 1886, a law for the preservation of the state's avifauna. Mass Audubon's roots were established in 1896 thanks to founding mothers Harriet Lawrence Hemenway and Minna B. Hall, who convinced fashion ladies to give up the cruelly harvested plumage that adorned their hats.
Audubon's Important Bird Areas program has protected 370 million acres along migratory bird routes in the United States and is a key part of Audubon's work with BirdLife International and other conservationists around the world. He named the Society after John James Audubon (1785-185), the ornithologist, explorer, and wildlife artist whose widow had been young Grinnell's teacher in New York City. The Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and the Audubon Center in Oyster Bay, New York, were donated to New York Audubon in 1923 by Emlen Roosevelt and Christine Roosevelt in memory of their cousin, who is buried in the adjacent Youngs Memorial Cemetery. The activities of the Audubon Society are responsible for many laws that establish gaming commissions and hunting guardian forces, or prohibit the sale of game.
The Audubon Society did not collect dues, own property, pressure legislatures, and did not sue any wrongdoers. Even before Grinnell's Audubon Society was organized, the American Union of Ornithologists, founded in 1883, was aware of the dangers faced by many birds in the United States. In 1994, President O'Brien and other members of the board of directors, members of the NAS, chapter leaders and staff joined forces to develop the Strategic Plan for Audubon 2000 (The Plan), a plan that consisted of turning the Society into one of the strongest and most effective grassroots organizations for environmental defense at the community, state and national levels. The National Audubon Society (NAS or the Society), one of the largest private conservation organizations in this country, seeks to promote public understanding of the value and need of conserving soil, water, plants and wildlife, as well as encouraging progress through the intelligent use of natural resources.
Employee data is based on information from people who have self-declared their past or current jobs with the National Audubon Society. The data presented on this page does not represent the opinion of the National Audubon Society and its employees or that of Zippia. However, in 1896, a group of women formed the Audubon Society of Massachusetts and they refused to buy or wear hats or clothing that used bird feathers. Cory, the elected president of the AOU, refused to attend a meeting of the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia stating that he does not protect birds.
The website contains information on Audubon branches inside and outside the United States, the society's bird conservation work, current issues, initiatives to conserve backyard habitats, and how to take action. Hall began a campaign to urge other members of high society to stop wearing feather hats, a practice that led to the killing of millions of birds, especially egrets and other mosquitoes, and his efforts led to the founding of the Audubon Society of Massachusetts, followed in the following years by more than thirty state societies. In North America, NAS has more than 550,000 members and 518 chapters in North America; nationally, the Society manages 104 Audubon wildlife sanctuaries and nature centers. .
