Audubon Names Andrea Jones as Vice President for California

The Nationwide Audubon Society introduced at the moment the official promotion of Andrea Jones as Vice President, California. A extensively revered chief who has pushed a number of main conservation wins throughout the state, Jones will helm one of many group’s largest workplaces, overseeing 46 workers and several other modern applications. 
 
“Our group in California is creating unbelievable influence for birds and communities throughout the state and I’m honored to assist their efforts,” mentioned Jones. “Because the California workplace approaches its thirtieth anniversary in 2026, I stay up for constructing on its legacy of highly effective conservation and envisioning new paths to scale back the decline of North America’s birds by way of defending and enhancing habitats, addressing the impacts of local weather change, and interesting Audubon chapters and communities to increase our work. I’m lucky to have labored in each nook of this stunning state and I’m thrilled to leverage my deep data of our communities, our alternatives, and our birds on this necessary position.” 
 
“Audubon’s Flight Plan requires bold methods to satisfy the challenges of this second – and California performs a important position in attaining that imaginative and prescient,” mentioned Srabani Roy, Audubon’s Vice President of Conservation Motion for the Western Flyways. “Andrea’s collaborative and galvanizing management can be instrumental to constructing a extra resilient future for birds and communities, not solely throughout the state, however all alongside the Pacific Flyway and the western hemisphere.” 
 
With over 600 species famous within the state, California is likely one of the most necessary locations for birds in North America and boasts a virtually unmatched biodiversity. Notable Audubon achievements in California embody saving Mono Lake, negotiating a conservation settlement at Tejon Ranch, itemizing the Pacific Coast inhabitants of Western Snowy Plover as federally threatened, main science and restoration efforts on the Salton Sea, and serving to to save lots of the California Condor. Audubon has a robust community in California, with 48 unbiased chapters, 10 campus chapters, and 100,000s of members and supporters. 
 
Jones brings over 30 years of expertise in fowl science, conservation, and advocacy, and has led a number of collaborative initiatives. She has served in varied management roles at Audubon California since 2006, most not too long ago as Senior Director of Conservation and Interim Govt Director, managing key conservation applications targeted on coastal and marine ecosystems, working lands, saline lakes, science, and group engagement. Jones performed a key position in negotiating the Owens Lake conservation plan, now an necessary mannequin for water co-management with fowl habitat and communities. Her work operating a multi-million-dollar restoration undertaking in San Francisco Bay led to coverage adjustments to assist make marshes extra adaptable to sea degree rise. And she or he partnered intently with Audubon chapters and different organizations throughout the California coast to launch a statewide Sharing Our Shores program defending the threatened Western Snowy Plover. Formally educated as a scientist, she has additionally written and contributed to a number of necessary publications and white papers. 
 
Earlier than her work in California, Jones served as Director of the Coastal Waterbird and Grassland Hen Applications at Mass Audubon. She earned her Grasp of Science diploma from the College of Massachusetts, the place she performed thesis analysis on Grasshopper Sparrows.  

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The Nationwide Audubon Society is a number one nonprofit conservation group with 120 years of science-based, community-driven influence, devoted to defending birds and the locations they want, at the moment and tomorrow. Birds are highly effective indicators of our planet’s well being, performing as sentinels that warn us of environmental change and encourage motion. Audubon works throughout the Western Hemisphere, pushed by the understanding that what is sweet for birds is sweet for the planet. By a collaborative, bipartisan method throughout habitats, borders, and the political spectrum, Audubon drives significant and lasting conservation outcomes. With 800 workers and over 1.9 million supporters, Audubon is a dynamic and ever-growing pressure dedicated to making sure a greater planet for each birds and other people for generations to return.