Give a Gift to Mother Nature this Holiday Season
(and without opening your checkbook!)

Stretching from Alaska to the Atlantic Ocean, North America’s Boreal Forest is one of the world’s largest intact forests. It accounts for 25% of the earth’s remaining forests, covers 1.4 billion acres, and is larger that the Brazilian Amazon. North America’s Boreal Forest supports some of the largest populations of wildlife and provides vital breeding grounds for up to a third of North America’s land birds (up to a billion warblers and 500 million or more sparrows) and 40% of its waterfowl.

According to the National Audubon Society, one of the major threats to the Boreal Forest is from logging to supply wood, pulp, and paper. The majority of the wood is used to make paper, including catalogs. Each year, catalog retailers mail out about 17 billion catalogs!!. That's 59 for every man, woman, and child in the United States. Yet almost none of this paper contains recycled content. This means that every year almost eight million tons of trees go straight into catalogs that are often unread and discarded.

Audubon Dallas is launching a new holiday conservation project. Our goal is to have every member discontinue at least two catalogs. Discontinuing a catalog is easy, just dial the catalog’s toll free number for ordering and ask to be taken off the mailing list. After you’ve cancelled as many catalogs as you can, please send our Vice President for Conservation, Jeanette Boylan, an email stating how many catalogs you cancelled. Her email is adconservation@yahoo.com. We will keep track of our progress towards our goal on our website (www.audubondallas.org).

A few minutes of your time will produce a great gift for Mother Nature.

CONSERVATION

Audubon and our members are dedicated to protecting birds, wildlife and our shared environment, and we carry that dedication in working with policymakers in Washington, D.C., state legislatures, and local governments across the country. However, with an almost evenly divided U.S. Congress, and new leaders emerging in states across the country, every vote on Audubon’s priority issues – restoring and protecting our natural legacy, securing funding for vital conservation programs, and preserving key natural resource protections will come down to the wire, and your lawmakers may cast the deciding vote!

We Need You!

The only way we’ll be successful in our conservation efforts is with your help, your participation in communicating with your elected officials and policy makers on these issues. And helping is easy, won’t take up your valuable time, and most important, will go a very long way in protecting our nation’s proud wildlife heritage!

To learn more about conservation issues and what you can do to help, click here.