California Coastal Cleanup Day is the premier volunteer event focused on the marine environment in the country. In 2009, more than 80,600 volunteers worked together to collect more than 1,300,000 pounds of trash and recyclables from our beaches, lakes, and waterways.
Golden…Read More
Golden Gate Audubon, one of California’s oldest conservation groups, needs WEEKDAY volunteers this school year to work in our award-winning Eco-Education Programs based in East Oakland and North Richmond.
Come work with 3rd, 4th and 5th graders during their field trip to the…Read More
Western Burrowing Owls inhabit parts of Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley. They arrive in the fall and leave in the spring. As they overwinter at the park, Golden Gate Audubon sends out trained docents to show people the owls, and…Read More
Golden Gate Audubon is a member of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN) and works closely with the International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC) in Cordelia, CA to prepare for oil spill emergencies in San Francisco Bay.
GGA’s experience surveying and…Read More
Update on the Beach Chalet Soccer Fields project:
On April 30, 2010 the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department announced that they will perform an Environmental Impact Report for the Beach Chalet Soccer Fields project.
Read the article from the San Francisco…Read More
See Alcatraz Island with Golden Gate Audubon field trip leaders on these upcoming dates:
Wednesday, May 12: Bob Lewis, bob@wingbeats.org – All spots are FULL.
Wednesday, June 9: Eddie Bartley, eddie@naturetrip.com
8:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.
This trip, scheduled monthly through the spring, is…Read More
The Sierra in late spring is a wonderful place for birds, with meadows alive with Wilson’s Snipe, Yellow-headed Blackbirds and Wilson’s Phalaropes; the mountains buzzing with nesting woodpeckers (Black-backed, White-headed, Hairy, and Williamson’s and Red-breasted Sapsuckers), Mountain Chickadees, Cassin’s Finches,…Read More
We are asking participants to turn off building lights during the bird migration (February through May and August though November each year). “Participants in the Lights Out for Birds program can save natural resources, money, and birds by turning off lighting…Read More
Golden Gate Audubon supports the restoration of the wetland habitat at Sharp Park.
Sharp Park should be converted to a wetland park to preserve habitat for the two protected species (the San Francisco Garter Snake is state and federally listed as endangered and…Read More
November 2, 2009
Update:10:00am
Golden Gate Audubon sent volunteers to locations around San Francisco Bay to monitor for and report on any oiled birds or wildlife over the weekend.
On November 1, 2009 the International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC) reported collecting dozens of…Read More
