New Jersey Audubon Society Headquarters

New Jersey Audubon Society is a privately supported, not-for-profit, statewide membership organization. Founded in 1897, and one of the oldest independent Audubon societies, New Jersey Audubon Society has no formal connection with the National Audubon Society.

New Jersey Audubon Society fosters environmental awareness and a conservation ethic, protects New Jersey's birds, mammals, other animals, and plants, especially endangered and threatened species, and promotes preservation of New Jersey's natural habitats.

New Jersey Audubon Society works to develop, encourage, and support sound conservation practices, programs, and legislation. It disseminates information on the natural environment through education programs, information services, and publications. It advances knowledge, through field research, of New Jersey's flora and fauna and their relationship to the habitats on which they depend. And it acquires, establishes, and maintains 34 wildlife sanctuaries and 10 nature centers throughout the state.

Description:
New Jersey Audubon Society has championed some of the strongest and most innovative conservation legislation in the nation, including the Pinelands Protection Act, Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act, Garden State Preservation Trust, and the Highlands Watershed Protection and Planning Act. Its award-winning environmental education programs foster responsible human behavior toward our natural world, based on knowledge and understanding of the interrelationships of all living things. And its research efforts provide information needed to make decisions based upon science rather than speculation.

History:
For more than a century, the New Jersey Audubon Society has defended the wild creatures that cannot speak for themselves, preserved our fragile and all-too-vulnerable natural places, and fought to maintain high environmental standards for New Jersey residents. Founded initially to stop the slaughter of birds for their feathers, New Jersey Audubon Society has continued working to protect birds and all wildlife to this day, as well as to conserve the natural habitats they -- and we -- depend upon.

Contact people:

Mindy Lynch, Program Director, (phone), (email) John Carno, Vice President For Development, (phone)

Office fax number: (908) 898-8960

Address:

9 Hardscrabble Road Bernardsville, NJ 07924 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.njaudubon.org

Last updated on June 16, 2009