Audubon Florida’s Julie Wraithmell Selected by Flamingo Magazine as a Culture Keeper

Flamingo Journal is understood for its quirky covers and meaty tales that cowl all issues Florida, from the Keys to the Panhandle. Printed on March 9, the article entitled Florida’s Culture Keepers profiled a broad choice of Florida’s previous and present-day icons, together with Julie Wraithmell, Audubon Florida’s govt director.

The piece by Helen Bradshaw covers Wraithmell’s dedication to defending birds and the locations they want, recounting one in every of her first observations of birds: recognizing American Tree Swallows from the Little League outfield.

“Nevertheless it’s the on a regular basis work to attach the federal government, scientists, and passionate residents that the majority defines her legacy,” says Bradshaw in her article, after detailing Wraithmell’s experiences with oil spill impacts, the enjoyment of seeing a Mississippi Kite, and, after all, the triumphant return of American Flamingos to the Sunshine State.

Since becoming a member of the Nationwide Audubon Society workers in 2015, Wraithmell has grown Audubon’s coastal conservation and coverage applications in Florida, was acknowledged with the Charles H. Callison Award (Nationwide Audubon Society’s highest workers honor), and has led the cost as Florida’s govt director since 2018.

Whereas Wraithmell’s profession entails talking for the birds, we discovered on this article that everybody has a job to play within the conservation of Florida’s pure sources and cultural identification. Even when they’re a fishing information, an writer, an artist, a musician, a chef, an activist/daughter of an NFL corridor of famer, a dancer, or an astronaut—the labels utilized to the opposite icons acknowledged by Flamingo’s editors on this article.

Audubon Florida works throughout the Sunshine State to guard and advocate for birds, particular locations, water high quality, and extra. We have now efficiently united the sanctuary administration, ecosystem science, and environmental education schemes of the Nationwide Audubon Society with Audubon Florida’s function because the state’s main voice for conservation. Along with a statewide community of grassroots chapters, Audubon Florida affords a compelling document of accomplishments and a good brighter promise for the safety of our state’s nice pure sources.