Buffalo Audubon Society

The Buffalo Audubon Society is a conservation and environmental education organization serving eight counties through nature center outdoor educational programs, field trips, and community education programs offered at sites across WNY.

Its mission of environmental conservation and education is accomplished through programming at its wyom/comm/park-rec/park/javaT_beav.html

Beaver Meadow Nature Center, school visits, outreach at community sites, stewardship of nearly 1000 acres of protected lands at five wildlife refuges across Western New York, and participation in conservation projects and advocacy locally and state-wide.

Background Information
The Buffalo Audubon Society has a long history of public education, conservation, and advocacy on behalf of the environment. Its founders were contemporary with the founders of the international Audubon movement and were primary participants in the grassroots movement to get The Plumage Bill passed in the New York State legislature in 1910, a major conservation achievement which reduced if not eliminated the widespread practice of mass killings of birds for the fashion industry. Buffalo Audubon Society's mission of education goes to its very origins.

Formed in a school, its initial founders included many teachers and much of its focus was on youth programs. In 1915, in partnership with the Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Public School Department, it formed 125 Junior Audubon "circles" in the Buffalo schools to promote education relative to the economic value of wild birds and the necessity for their protection.

The Society just celebrated its 90th anniversary, making it one of the oldest Audubon Societies in the United States. The Buffalo Audubon Society, with nine decades of service to the region, is one of the oldest nonprofit organizations in Western New York and in fact is one of the oldest environmental organizations in the country. It is an official chapter of the National Audubon Society, which as one of the leading environmental organizations in the country, has over one half million members.

The Buffalo chapter, with 3100 members, is one of the largest in New York State. Its mission of environmental conservation and education is accomplished through programming at its Beaver Meadow Nature Center in Wyoming County, in-school visits, curriculum enhancement and teacher inservice training. Outreach at community sites, stewardship of nearly 1000 acres of protected lands at five wildlife refuges across Western New York, and participation in conservation projects locally and state-wide are also priorities of Buffalo Audubon.

For more information:

Phone: 716 457-3228
Fax 716 457-1378
E-mail: buffaloaudubonsoc@wycol.com

Web Site: http://www.audubon.org/chapter/ny/buffalo