As the Red Knot’s fraught journey illustrates, climate change could upend everything birds need to thrive. Facing this requires collaboration across countries, disciplines, and organizations—birds don’t see borders, after all. That’s why, with funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Audubon is spearheading an unprecedented effort to coordinate BirdLife International partners in 12 Western Hemisphere nations—the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Panama, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil—to address climate change’s threats to birds. “We’re mobilizing a network to deal with climate change on the level and scale that birds need,” says Matthew Jeffery (above), deputy director and senior program director for Audubon’s International Alliances Program.
As in Audubon’s 2014 Birds and Climate Change Report, science leads the way. The first task is…
