Race/Related: What does bird conservation have to do with social justice?

Inside an all-out feud at the National Audubon Society over its handling of race within the organization. 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[Author Headshot](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmuetvP0TBaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvY2x5ZGUtbWNncmFkeT9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIzMDgxMiZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD05OTg4MiZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTQxODAyJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0Qgpk029m12TWzNcdUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAM~) By [Clyde McGrady](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmuetvP0TBaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvY2x5ZGUtbWNncmFkeT9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIzMDgxMiZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD05OTg4MiZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTQxODAyJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0Qgpk029m12TWzNcdUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAM~) Reporter On the same day [George Floyd was murdered](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmuetvP0TmaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8wNC8yMC91cy9jaGF1dmluLWd1aWx0eS1tdXJkZXItZ2VvcmdlLWZsb3lkLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzcmZW1jPWVkaXRfcnJfMjAyMzA4MTImaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9OTk4ODImbmw9cmFjZSUyRnJlbGF0ZWQmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE0MTgwMiZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKZNNvZtdk1szXHVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAD) by a police officer on a Minneapolis street — Memorial Day, 2020 — [Christian Cooper was searching for songbirds](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmuetvP0TyaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wNi8xNC9ueXJlZ2lvbi9jZW50cmFsLXBhcmstYW15LWNvb3Blci1jaHJpc3RpYW4tcmFjaXNtLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzcmZW1jPWVkaXRfcnJfMjAyMzA4MTImaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9OTk4ODImbmw9cmFjZSUyRnJlbGF0ZWQmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE0MTgwMiZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKZNNvZtdk1szXHVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAD) in Central Park. Mr. Cooper, who is Black, would be vaulted to fame after a run-in with a white woman who called the police and falsely claimed he was threatening her when he asked her to leash her dog. To David Yarnold, the chief executive of the National Audubon Society at the time, both events demanded a response. The powerful conservation group and pre-eminent bird enthusiasts’ organization needed to weigh in, and even examine itself. “Black lives matter,” Mr. Yarnold, who is white, wrote in a letter to the society’s staff after the first weekend of the George Floyd protests. “Our nation is in turmoil because our governments, our institutions (including Audubon), and private individuals haven’t done nearly enough to act on that fundamental truth.” Mr. Yarnold promised to start a “long conversation” about how the Audubon Society could “become antiracist in everything we do.” Three years later, that long conversation has led the society into an all-out feud over its own handling of race within the organization. Complaints about workplace conditions and the treatment of minority employees and hobbyists are bound up in the question of whether the conservation group should drop its namesake, John James Audubon, who owned slaves. Sam DeJarnett, a birder who worked at Portland Audubon, struggled to find inclusion in a group of predominantly older, white birders.Will Matsuda for The New York Times Mr. Yarnold has left, and several board members have quit. Local chapters of the national organization have distanced themselves, employees are in an uproar, donors are skittish and members — the lifeblood of the organization — are wondering what has happened to an insular community of nature lovers who were more accustomed to debating birding etiquette than to grappling with deeply entrenched racism. [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-universal-0) ADVERTISEMENT [Ad](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmuetvP0SZaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9MTc0MTQ5JmxpPVJSJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1SUl8yMDIzMDgxMiZ0ZT0xJm5sPXJhY2UlMkZyZWxhdGVkJmVtYz1lZGl0X3JyXzIwMjMwODEyVwNueXRCCmTTb2bXZNbM1x1SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~) What is going on inside the Audubon Society is a microcosm of the debates that have roiled organizations across the country since 2020. Companies, governments and campuses, driven by the [energy of groups like Black Lives Matter,](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmuetvP0TWaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8wNi8wNC91cy9ibGFjay1saXZlcy1tYXR0ZXIuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIzMDgxMiZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD05OTg4MiZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTQxODAyJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0Qgpk029m12TWzNcdUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAM~) committed themselves to ambitious plans to change policing and corporate culture. Many found themselves caught between a desire to appeal to a younger, more diverse generation and the objections of others who said the changes they were considering went too far. Audubon’s case is an example of the complications that can arise in a post-2020 world when an organization tries, or fails, to meet those expectations, especially when the expectations fall outside the organization’s traditional mission: What does bird conservation have to do with social justice? For [some](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmuetvP0TsaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXVkdWJvbi5vcmcvbWFnYXppbmUvc3ByaW5nLTIwMjEvd2hhdC1kby13ZS1kby1hYm91dC1qb2huLWphbWVzLWF1ZHVib24_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzcmZW1jPWVkaXRfcnJfMjAyMzA4MTImaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9OTk4ODImbmw9cmFjZSUyRnJlbGF0ZWQmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE0MTgwMiZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKZNNvZtdk1szXHVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAD) people, the name John James Audubon means birding the way the name Edison means electric light. By cataloging and painting hundreds of species in the early 1800s for his seminal four-volume work, “The Birds of America,” Audubon arguably contributed more to ornithological study than any other individual in United States history. But he was also an outspoken anti-abolitionist slave owner who held repellent beliefs about African Americans. He enslaved nine people to work in his Kentucky home, bought and sold several people, and argued against emancipation, [according to a biographer, Gregory Nobles.](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmuetvP0TRaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXVkdWJvbi5vcmcvbmV3cy90aGUtbXl0aC1qb2huLWphbWVzLWF1ZHVib24_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzcmZW1jPWVkaXRfcnJfMjAyMzA4MTImaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9OTk4ODImbmw9cmFjZSUyRnJlbGF0ZWQmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE0MTgwMiZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKZNNvZtdk1szXHVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAD) In the aftermath of Mr. Floyd’s murder, prominent members of the birding community urged the National Audubon Society’s board of directors to consider a name change. 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That, in turn, would help the organization thrive. “Why would you not take the step of being brave and moving forward?” said Jason Hall, a 40-year-old Black man who founded the In Color Birding Club as a way to “open birding and access to outdoors to people of color.” Mr. Hall said the Audubon Society’s position should be: “We need to consider this name change because it gives us an opportunity to reconcile the history of this person, but also keep our core mission of bringing birds to people. And by doing that we can bring more birds to more people, more, different kinds of people.” Read the rest of the story [here](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmuetvP0TiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wOC8wNy91cy9hdWR1Ym9uLXNvY2lldHktYmlyZGluZy1yYWNpc20uaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zNyZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ycl8yMDIzMDgxMiZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD05OTg4MiZubD1yYWNlJTJGcmVsYXRlZCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTQxODAyJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0Qgpk029m12TWzNcdUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAM~). EDITORS’ PICKS We publish many articles that touch on race. Here are several you shouldn’t miss. 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