The Latest Breaking News from John James Audubon

A conservationist group known as NYC Audubon has changed its name to NYC Bird Alliance to distance itself from the pro-slavery views of ornithologist and illustrator John James Audubon.

NYC Bird Alliance dropped name of 19th-century conservationist and abolition opponent John James Audubon

The bird conservation organization’s leaders join other groups after grappling with the legacy of “a historical figure aligned with systemic racism.”

Three board members resigned after the National Audubon Society rejected calls to change its name. Some local groups are renaming themselves anyway.

Two Audubon Society chapters and the union formerly know as Audubon for All are severing the name of the white supremacist

The Chicago Audubon Society, an environmental organization, wants to cut associations with John Audubon, a naturalist who engaged in ‘scientific racism.’

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You don't need to be a bird nerd to know that the name "Audubon" is synonymous with our feathered friends. Less well known is that John James Audubon was a slave-owning racist. That past should disqualify him from having his name attached to Seattle's birding organization and every other Audubon…

It was a risk that likely was not perceived back in 1886, when Forest and Stream magazine editor George Bird Grinnell, distraught over the mass slaughter of birds, decided to name his new organization after one of the most noted artists and naturalists of his time, John James Audubon.