For more than a century, Audubon has protected birds and their habitat for the benefit of humanity and the Earth's biodiversity. Our legacy is based on science, education, promotion and conservation on the ground. Audubon achieved lasting fame for his detailed studies and illustrations of American birds in the early 19th century. The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, across the Americas through science, promotion, education and conservation on the ground.
By 1898, State-level Audubon Societies had been established in Pennsylvania, New York, New Hampshire, Illinois, Maine, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Minnesota, Texas, and California. However, in 1985, after the 37th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Bournemouth (England), which was attended by officials from the National Audubon Society and other United States, protecting waterbird populations was already part of Audubon's mission even before the official creation of the National Audubon Society. 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. In 1905, the National Audubon Society was founded, with the protection of seagulls, terns, egrets and other waterbirds among its conservation priorities.
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. Originally called the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia, ANS was created in 1897 as part of a wave of groups of this type that sought to protect bird species that were then threatened by hunters. 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. 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.
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. The Audubons then acquired several more enslaved people during the 1820s, but sold them again in 1830, when they moved to England, where Audubon oversaw the production of what he called his “great work”, The Birds of America, the enormous four-volume compendium of bird art that made him famous. John James Audubon was born on April 26, 1785 in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo (now Haiti), the illegitimate son of French ship captain Jean Audubon and a servant, Jeanne Rabine.
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