Bird Ally X Botulism Response

04/17/2025

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=992296159756167&set=a.246835910968866

PLEASE JOIN US MAY 17th

For the past 25 years, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the City of Klamath Falls, and community partners have united to celebrate Klamath Falls Migratory Bird Day at Veterans Park. This year's 25th annual event, is scheduled for Saturday, May 17th, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, aims once again to connect the communities of the Klamath Basin to the natural wonders surrounding them, highlighting the critical need to conserve migratory birds and their habitats.

02/22/2025

https://www.refugeassociation.org/the-refuge-staffing-crisis

Advocacy

02/21/2025

I am reaching out to ask for your support in speaking up for the Federal wildlife professionals and conservation scientists who have been terminated due to recent layoffs. These budget cuts and the hiring freeze have significantly impacted our Klamath Falls, OR community, with at least five individuals , including two from our Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge Complex (KBNWRC), losing their jobs. The impacts from the budget cuts, hiring freeze and mass layoffs will be far reaching and include nonprofit partners who help carry out restoration and conservation work through refuge partnerships.

These dedicated professionals have committed their careers to conserving wildlife and our natural resources. Further cuts are anticipated, and the consequences will be devastating.

If you are willing to help, take action:

https://www.refugeassociation.org/advocacy-fy25-appropriations

https://act.npca.org/page/79522/action/1?_ga=2.236712897.1337405104.1740173354-2075161677.1740165625

Twin Pines Minerals, LLC, based in Alabama, continues seeking permission for a heavy mineral sand mine next to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Their latest proposal asks the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (GA EPD) to grant five permits needed to excavate heavy ​minerals used in...

02/16/2025

The Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge Complex already working with a skeleton crew, were forced to let go 2 important employees.
https://www.refugeassociation.org/news/2025/2/14/eodwispvhseybqgjow291z3k5wxerh?fbclid=IwY2xjawIe8S5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeScCKktOLCzwRIxYjgO8C6Nnt233xiZbqlbPz-xATU7tkTEVkc6xKm91w_aem_BGhpL0WVxmZKofzdDgjrBwe

The National Wildlife Refuge Association is deeply alarmed by today’s Department of the Interior-wide termination of approximately 420 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees, many of whom are critical to the mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System. These firings, which disproportionately ...

01/27/2025

12/10/2024

Our annual holiday card! Just mailed out today! You’re support is so important to us – you make everything possible! Thank for another beuatiful year caring for our region’s orpha…

11/15/2024

Over 94,000 birds have died from a massive botulism outbreak at Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge.

10/23/2024

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/tule-lake-sick-birds-19847081.php

Nearly 100,000 birds have died at Tule Lake in what scientists say is the worst outbreak of avian botulism in wildlife refuges along California-Oregon border.

10/16/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/16/bird-deaths-botulism-climate-crisis

More than 94,000 birds have died at Tule Lake wildlife refuge in northern California, its worst recorded epidemic

10/15/2024

https://www.ijpr.org/wildlife/2024-10-15/wildlife-rehabilitators-treat-birds-one-by-one-as-botulism-outbreak-at-a-klamath-refuge-drags-on

A non-profit group fights an uphill battle to save the victims of a massive outbreak of avian botulism that continues to ravage waterfowl at one of the Klamath National Wildlife Refuges.

10/12/2024

https://www.thenewlede.org/2024/10/nearly-100000-birds-dead-in-botulism-outbreak-linked-to-climate-change-water-diversions/

By Douglas Main An ongoing outbreak of botulism, a bacterial illness that causes muscle paralysis, has killed more than 94,000 birds at Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Northern California, the worst such outbreak at the lake ever recorded, according to federal scientists. Affected birds often....