Breaking: A catastrophe for birds [oil spill]

125,000 gallons of crude—at least Need to give your inbox a break? [Pause fundraising messages]( for two weeks. [National Audubon Society]( [Oiled Pelican.]( An oiled Pelican along the Louisiana coast in the months after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in May 2010. [Breaking: A catastrophe for birds—and how you can help]( [Double Your Impact for Birds]( SUSTAINER STATUS: Unconfirmed GIVING CHALLENGE: Unlock $5,000 [Donate]( 40 new monthly donors needed. Unlock a $5,000 gift On Sunday a major spill off the coast of Southern California spewed more than 125,000 gallons of crude oil into coastal waters and wetlands. It will ooze into wetland critical stopovers for migratory birds and threaten beachgoing birds as soon as it hits the shore. This is an urgent reminder that birds and oil don’t mix. We need your help to protect birds and their habitats from the threat of oil spills like this one. [Please be one of 40 new monthly donors we need now, and you’ll help unlock an additional $5,000 gift.]( Audubon works toward cleaner energy solutions to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and fight the impacts of climate change. We back strong federal protections for birds and their habitats — among them those that hold Big Oil responsible for spills. On the Pacific coast, we are advocating for a federal ban of offshore oil drilling and promoting cleaner, renewable energy that is cited properly to minimize impacts to wildlife. And we protect important coastal landscapes to keep them resilient for wildlife and the communities that need them. But we can only do all this with your help. This spill is contaminating an area that includes some of the Southern California coast’s few remaining wetlands — vital havens for breeding Snowy Plovers and Least Terns, migrating Pacific Loons, Ospreys, and many other shore- and seabirds. For travelers along the Pacific Flyway, this disaster couldn’t have happened at a worse time: in the thick of fall migration. And while oil extraction can kill birds and wildlife directly, there’s another, more insidious effect of fossil fuel use, too: Nearly two-thirds of North American birds are threatened by climate change, with many species already declining as we speak. A spill can challenge hundreds of thousands of birds in a region, birds that are already struggling worldwide from rising temperatures, stronger storms, and drought. [So please support our vital work to protect birds with your monthly gift. Be one of 40 new monthly donors we need now, and help unlock $5,000 more for birds.]( [Give Monthly]( Photo: Kim Hubbard/Audubon [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( National Audubon Society 225 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014 USA [(844) 428-3826](#) [audubon.org]( © 2021 National Audubon Society, Inc. [Pause fundraising emails for two weeks]( [Update your email address or unsubscribe](