10/07/2026
Please join on a Zoom presentation
Protecting Birds along their Whole Migratory Paths: Good News for Linking Habitat Conservation Across the Americas
with John Hannan
Wednesday, October 7th at 7:00 pm
While our desire to preserve bird populations currently faces many challenges, there is still good news to celebrate. John Hannan, who has worked with multiple bird conservation organizations across the Americas, will share beautiful imagery of our hemisphere’s birds and landscapes while telling us about some of the key bird conservation initiatives happening across the Americas right now. This work, being done by a wide-ranging coalition, has become a core part of National Audubon’s 10-year strategy, and Audubon chapters can play a central role. Together we can help build healthy and sustainable communities all along the flyways of North American migratory birds, protecting the same birds we work to safeguard right here in New York. From massive endeavors to preserve more than 550 million acres of coastal and wetland habitat to community-based science projects you can participate in, John will present an uplifting view of bird conservation in the Americas and ways you can be part of it.
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John Hannan is a 40-year veteran of the nonprofit world, most of it in conservation. For National Audubon, he was Director of Development of the Audubon CT field operation and on the planning team for the Atlantic Flyway Shorebird Conservation Business Plan. He is a past Chair of the Audubon NY State Chapters’ Council and a past and present President of Bedford Audubon. Prior to Audubon, at the Greentree Foundation, he helped protect thousands of acres of Long Leaf Pine Forest in Georgia and turned a Gilded Age Long Island estate into a Center for International Peace Conferences. At Riverkeeper, he focused on protecting the Hudson River and its watershed, and at New York Cares he created volunteer programs to assist the poor and disabled in NYC. During the 80s and 90s, he helped promote economic stability, human rights, and sustainable development for rural communities in Central America. Over the past 12 years, he has continued forming key partnerships that address conservation and community development, traveling to Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Honduras, to name just a few. He supervised the management of over 650 health, education, environmental, and economic development projects conducted by more than 3,000 international volunteers working alongside residents of ~40 rural communities in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. Since 2018, he has worked with BirdLife International in support of that partnership’s coordinated global conservation programs. Now retired, helps build local awareness of how migratory birds bring environmental connectivity across our planet and how important it is for us to protect these fragile natural resources we depend upon. Hannan has been a serious birdwatcher, ornithologist, and nature photographer for 40+ years. He currently resides with his wife in Somers, NY.
While our desire to preserve bird populations currently faces many challenges, there is still good news to celebrate. John Hannan, who has worked with multiple bird conservation organizations across the Americas, will share beautiful imagery of our hemisphere’s birds and landscapes while telling ...
