Check out this great article by Martha Harbison, Senior Network Content Editor with National Audubon Society, about Love Your Wetlands Day and the projects and partners working together to protect marshes and rebuild resilient coastlines in the face of a warming world:
The coastline in southern California is getting friendlier for marsh birds thanks to the collaboration between local Audubon chapters, their coalition partners, and Audubon California. Together, they’ve begun restoring portions of Mission Bay and land adjacent to Buena Vista Lagoon to what the land and plant life looked like before European colonizers arrived. That hard work was on full display earlier this month during Love Your Wetlands Day at Mission Bay, where coalition partners organized a variety of interactive learning experiences and opportunities for attendees to do a little restoration work of their own: Kids and parents worked alongside college students to pick up trash from the shoreline and helped weave harvested tule grass into the structural components for traditional boats and nesting platform covers for endangered Ridgway’s Rail.
Love Your Wetlands Day is one part of a much larger initiative that has brought together San Diego Audubon, Buena Vista Audubon, San Diego City College Audubon Club, their other coalition partners in ReWild Mission Bay, the local Kumeyaay and Payómkawichum Indigenous communities, and Audubon California in an effort to rewild some of the most built-up shorelines in North America. This work is part of a hemispheric-wide effort to protect marshes and rebuild resilient coastlines in the face of a warming world.
Read the rest of the article HERE!
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