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Exploring The Fall Foliage
All around Woodend Sanctuary, there are trails that will take you on a tour of the local wildlife. The larger loop is wheelchair accessible, and there are some others that…
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Earth Day ‘Belonging’ project highlights Black Americans in nature
When a communications director had trouble finding images and representations of people of color enjoying the great outdoors, she took matters into her own hands.
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Audubon faces backlash over slavery ties
Across the United States, groups tied to the Audubon Society are moving forward with plans to rename the organization that works to protect birds.
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Audubon Society Keeps Name Despite Slavery Ties, Dividing Birders
The national bird conservation group said it would “reckon with the racist legacy of John James Audubon,” a naturalist and illustrator who was an enslaver, but voted to keep the…
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Opinion: A local Audubon Society has already changed its name
Although the National Audubon Society failed to change its name, Nature Forward, a.k.a. the Audubon Naturalist Society in Montgomery County, for which I volunteer, has already “moved forward.
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D.C. Audubon Society ‘Will No Longer Carry The Name Of An Enslaver’
More than a year ago, another local Audubon group became the first in the country to announce it would change its name. The former Audubon Naturalist Society, an independent conservation…
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Conservation groups drop Audubon name in ‘commitment to anti-racism’
Elsewhere in the US, the Chicago, Seattle and Madison chapters have also committed to changing their names, as has the unaffiliated Audubon Naturalist Society. The latter is now goes by…
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I270, I495 Widening Hits Roadblock; Developer Ends Involvement
Several governmental officials and environmental groups, including Nature Forward, cheered Thursday’s announcement from Transurban that it “has decided not to proceed with the Maryland Express Lanes Project” that includes the…
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Taking Nature Black Conference Calls for Environmental Justice
People of color need to speak out, collaborate and learn to navigate the system in order to bring environmental justice to their communities, Keynote Speaker Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome said at…
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Taking Nature Black Conference set for March 8-11
Nature Forward’s Vince Robinson and Taking Nature Black Conference speaker Alex Smith join Gabe Ortis to discuss this week’s Taking Nature Black Conference.