Description: FOUR HARBORS AUDUBON SOCIETY SPRING LECTURE (Zoom presentation)
BIRDS ARE TELLING US IT’S TIME TO TAKE ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE: NATURAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS PAVE THE WAY
Speaker, Dr. Brooke Bateman
Over the last 50 years, North America has lost over one quarter of its birds - that’s nearly 3 billion birds gone. Looking forward, National Audubon Society’s 2019 Report, Survival by Degrees: 389 Bird Species on the Brink, identifies that if we don’t take meaningful action now, future climate change will be one of the greatest threats to birds in North America.
Join Dr. Brooke Bateman, Director of Climate Science for the National Audubon Society, for a presentation on how we can implement Natural Climate Solutions to address these dual biodiversity and climate crises. Audubon’s new Natural Climate Solutions Report shows that habitats that are important for birds now and in the future are also critical to reducing green-house emissions given their ability to naturally store and sequester carbon. This means that maintaining and restoring these landscapes through incentives for management and conservation are important strategies in our collective challenge to stabilize climate change.
As the Director of Climate Science at the National Audubon Society, Dr. Bateman collaborates with scientists, volunteers, and Audubon’s Climate Initiative team to develop research focused on climate and the conservation of birds and the places they need today and in the future. In this role she led a team of scientists in developing Survival by Degrees: 389 Bird Species on the Brink, Audubon's 2019 Birds and Climate Change Report. As director of Climate Watch, she works with community volunteers to understand how climate change currently affects birds in North America. Her research focus is on spatial ecology and conservation, emphasizing the effect that extreme weather events and climate change have on biodiversity. Before joining the Audubon science team in 2016, Brooke conducted postdoctoral research on the influence of climate and weather on birds and marsupials with James Cook University, The University of Tasmania, and CSIRO in Australia.
This Zoom presentation is free and open to all, but you will need to register in advance. Afterwards you will receive an email with instructions on how to join the Zoom presentation.
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