Natural History Wanderings

The New York Times has a major story on how Audubon’s National organization struggles and fails at dealing with racism and sexism. Our local Bay Area Chapter has been also dealing with these issues. We have made concrete efforts to be more inclusive and welcoming to all and will vote to change our chapter name this month.

A battle over the group namesake’s ties to slavery grew into a conflict over diversity, highlighting complications that have arisen in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/us/audubon-society-birding-racism.html