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The Massachusetts Audubon Society was born out of Harriet Hemenway's desire to stop the commercial slaughter of birds for women's ornamental hats. Hemenway and her cousin, Minna Hall, soon enlisted 900 women and formed a partnership with many from Boston's scientific community to form their organization.
[3] [4] The Elizabeth A. Morton National Wildlife Refuge is named for her, [5] and was the first national wildlife refuge named for a woman (the three others are named for Rachel Carson, Elizabeth S. Hartwell, and Julia Butler Hansen). [6] She donated additional land to the Nature Conservancy in 1957, which became part of the Wolf Swamp Reserve ...
And by Executive Order of March 14, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt established Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, along Florida's central Atlantic coast, as the first unit of the present National Wildlife Refuge System. It is misleading, however, to conclude that this was the genesis of wildlife sanctuaries in the United States.
The present Audubon Society of the District of Columbia (DC Audubon), established in 1999, is a local chapter of the National Audubon Society. [42] Under the name Audubon Naturalist Society, Nature Forward was not directly affiliated with the national organization.
The mission of the refuge system is "To administer a national network of lands and waters for the conservation, management, and where appropriate, restoration of fish, wildlife, and plant resources and their habitats within the United States for the benefit of the present and future generations of Americans" (National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997).
Founders at Old Rag Mountain, VA in 1946. Bob Marshall: chief of recreation and lands for the United States Forest Service; Aldo Leopold: noted wildlife ecologist and later author of A Sand County Almanac; Robert Sterling Yard: publicist for the National Park Service; Benton MacKaye: the "Father of the Appalachian Trail";
Simon Maxwell Cowell MBE (19 April 1952 – 9 June 2024) was a British conservationist, television presenter, and author best known for hosting the Animal Planet documentary series Wildlife SOS from 1996 to 2014. [1]
The American Sanctuary Association (ASA) was a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1998 to set standards for animal care and housing. The goal of ASA was to link sanctuary directors and founders in order to share experiences and to enable unwanted and wild unreleasable animals to find safe haven.