Our mission:

Aggressively advocate for the protection of birds and their habitat by promoting urban habitat, regional ecosystems, and birds at risk.

Seattle Audubon is committed to the protection of birds and their habitat. We are further committed to infusing this conservation ethic throughout all of the organization's activities and programs.

As reflected in our mission statement, we focus on three primary goals of increasing geographic scope:

• Promoting Urban Habitat - We seek to insure that public lands management within our urban membership area (Seattle and suburban King County) includes consideration of wildlife values and the value of "undeveloped" natural areas. We seek also to encourage private landowners (e.g., homeowners) to implement bird-friendly gardening and lifestyle practices.



• Defending Pacific NW Regional Ecosystems (Forests, Wetlands, Shorelines) - We work for land use and development decisions within our region that promote healthy, functioning ecosystems and sustainable development. We particularly focus on the role of intact forests in providing critical habitat for resident and migratory birds.



• Protecting Migratory Birds - We seek to educate our members and the public at large of the critical importance of acting locally to protect birds that migrate internationally, whether they are songbirds that winter on Central and South American shade coffee plantations () or shorebirds and waterfowl that breed in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Indeed, through migratory birds, we seek to remind people of the interconnectedness of the web of life.

Within each of these three priority areas we pay special attention to a fourth overarching goal:

• Defending Birds at Risk - Where necessary, we act to protect individual bird species at particular risk . For example, in the late 1980s, we became established leaders in the effort to protect the Spotted Owl from extinction due to loss of old-growth forests. Other recent examples includes our lawsuit on behalf of Caspian Terns, and our efforts to defend the critical habitat of Snowy Plovers, Marbled Murrelets, and Spotted Owls.

More information on what Seattle Audubon stands for can be found in the associated pages:

Resolutions - Provides a full listing of the formal resolutions we have taken on conservation issues back to 1997, and a partial listing of resolutions prior to that year.

Advocacy Agenda 2003 - A statement of the current year's specific targets for conservation advocacy and action, drawing from our overall priorities as well as from an evaluation of important near-term action needs.

Conservation 20 Year Vision - Lays out a vision for what we want to have achieved in the area of conservation by 2021, and how we want the conservation program to be known.

Finally, more details on the individual campaigns associated with our conservation priorities can be found on the Campaigns page.