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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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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…