Issues and Actions
- Great blue heron - Jim Cruce
Portland Audubon protects and advocates for Oregon’s native birds and other wildlife. Stay informed about current conservation efforts and ways to get involved.
Urban Initiatives
The Portland metropolitan region is home to a rich variety of wildlife and an incredible network of natural areas. Audubon is working to protect our urban wildlife populations and preserve access to nature for all residents.
Statewide Initiatives
From the state’s coastal waters to its eastern deserts, Portland Audubon is working to protect Oregon's most important habitats and the animals that depend on them.
Backyard Wildlife
Learn more about living with urban wildlife, including ways to create welcoming habitat for native species in your own backyard.
Join our flock of citizen-science volunteers.
History
For over a century, Audubon Society of Portland has been a leading voice promoting conservation of wildlife and the habitats on which they depend for future generations. Our early work led to passage of some of the first bird protection laws in the nation and the establishment of the first National Wildlife Refuges in the West at Malheur, Klamath and Three Arch Rocks.
More recent successes included successful efforts to list the Northern Spotted Owl and Marbled Murrelet under the Endangered Species Act, leading local efforts to recover the American Peregrine Falcon and pioneering efforts to protect wildlife habitat and access to nature on urban landscapes.
Today we face profound environmental challenges. Our native wildlife populations are threatened by a myriad of threats including urbanization, invasive species, man-made hazards, habitat loss, climate change, and attempts to rollback existing wildlife laws. Reversal of these trends will require action at multiple scales beginning in our own backyards and extending out across the landscape.
The strength of Audubon Society of Portland has always been its active local membership, today more than 10,000 strong. Together we have and can continue to make difference. Audubon provides multiple ways to become involved in conservation ranging from programs to help you to protect and restore wildlife habitat in your backyard and community to programs to protect the more critical wildlife areas in the state and promote critical local, state and federal policies to protect wildlife.
Please join us in building a region where people and wildlife can flourish together.
