(THIS SECTION UNDER CONSTRUCTION & UPDATE)
http://www.audubon.org/takeaction – for links to petitions/actions you can take for conservation issues affecting birds (and people)
There are many proposed changes pending for the National Parks, including opening them to drilling and mining, slashing their funding, and other changes that threaten the future of our national treasures. Only one example: rolling back Clean Water and salmon fishing protections for Bristol Bay in Alaska on behalf of foreign mining interests who want to develop an open-pit mine for gold & copper 15 miles from Lake Clark NP. You can read more, as well as sign up for alerts & online petitions from the National Parks Conservation Association, at https://secure.npca.org/site/SPageNavigator/joinus.html
House Committee on Natural Resources
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Stop Trafficking of Endangered Species
Support the renewal of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act