We All Belong
May 29, 2020
By Manuel Oliva, CEO These past weeks we have been witnesses to stark reminders of inequality and injustice in the United States. As an organization founded by bird conservationists over 55 years ago, to many in our community the racist incident in the Central Park Ramble in New York City, in which a white woman
Zoom into the Field with Point Blue
May 11, 2020
We at Point Blue would like to offer a small gift to our community as we continue to keep our physical distance and stay home as much as possible. If you are reading this, you are most likely a nature lover and missing the ocean, rivers, forest, and maybe even coming out to visit us
Science News: Sheltering Together, Life Cycle Science, Smarter Meadows, and more
April 24, 2020
Living in a Sheltered World Together COVID-19 is affecting everyone everywhere right now and Point Blue is no exception. We continue to send gratitude out to all of the essential workers who are risking their own well-being to help us get through this unprecedented event. While many of our data collection efforts are affected by
6 Ways to Help the Earth While You’re at Home
April 7, 2020
from Point Blue to You Our hearts and thoughts go out to those that are fighting sickness, struggling to find housing and work, and managing differing levels of anxiety and depression as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are sending gratitude as well to all of the frontline and essential workers: nurses, doctors, first
Our Role in a New Plan for Bay Area Wetlands
April 6, 2020
The Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program Plan is out and online! Learn more about the plan at www.sfestuary.org/wrmp. The Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program is a collaborative, regional effort to understand how we can restore wetlands in the San Francisco Estuary with a focus on adapting to sea level rise. The Plan is the result of 2
A New Planting Palette for Sierra Meadows
March 30, 2020
Point Blue Conservation Science is excited to share a new climate-smart resource for Sierra meadow restoration: the Sierra Meadow Planting Palette Tool and Tool User Guide . The purpose of this tool is to help restoration practitioners plan for climate change by identifying plant species that have traits that will increase the likelihood that they
Point Blue’s Coronavirus Response
March 17, 2020
By Manuel Oliva, CEO To all in our Point Blue community, In these uncertain times we wanted to send you an update on how Point Blue is responding to the latest developments of the coronavirus pandemic (aka COVID-19) and send our support as we all navigate our way through this unprecedented event. The health and
Carving Out Support for Conservation
March 11, 2020
By Lishka Arata, Senior Communications Coordinator When Melinda Whipplesmith Plank reached out to Point Blue last spring to ask if we were interested in an artist collaboration that would support our conservation work, our immediate answer was an enthusiastic, “Yes!” Millie, as she prefers to be called, is a woodblock print artist based out of
Celebrating Women in 2020
March 8, 2020
During the month of March we are highlighting some of the awesome women scientists at Point Blue on our home page in honor of Women’s History Month. Our scientists are grateful for the pioneering women in history like Roger Arliner Young, Hallie Daggett, and Rosalie Barrow Edge who have helped pave the way for women
Science News: Guatemala, Spain, A Record Capture, and more
January 30, 2020
Building Capacity in Guatemala We are excited to welcome Guatemala as the 13th and most recent country to join the Migratory Shorebird Project! Initiated in 2011, the Migratory Shorebird Project is the largest ongoing coordinated survey of wintering shorebirds on the Pacific Coast of the Americas, and is a cooperative effort of conservation science organizations and
