Neighborhood engagement was on the coronary heart of California’s Audubon Conservation Ranching (ACR) work in 2025. From cooks and ranchers to restoration leaders, conservationists, and curious group members, our staff spent the 12 months sharing the sweetness and ecological significance of California’s rangelands.
Throughout these gatherings, we have been reminded, time and again, of a easy fact: birds and meals deliver folks collectively. Ranchers stay deeply dedicated to stewarding pure assets. Cooks proceed to hunt meals with significant tales behind it. Shoppers wish to perceive the place their meals comes from and the way their selections can help the landscapes they love. And at each occasion we hosted, organized, or attended, folks stood in awe of the open areas that nourish us.
California’s rangelands supply exceptional advantages: wildlife habitat, open house, meals, clear water, and clear air. But these working lands are sometimes ignored, and every year, hundreds of acres are misplaced to land conversion and fragmentation. Birds, our sentinels, warn us via their declining populations. However this 12 months additionally introduced causes for hope. Via sturdy partnerships with ranchers, Audubon’s Conservation Ranching Program continues to display that considerate land administration helps thriving ecosystems for birds and different wildlife in addition to resilient, rural communities.
In 2025, Audubon Conservation Ranching superior its mission by elevating consciousness, championing sustainable ranching, and creating alternatives for folks and birds to thrive collectively.
