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Wildlife Preservation
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Help Grow Wilderness for Tomorrow
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"Where the wild things are is where I am most at home."--Kim Antieau
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- E/The Environmental Magazine
E/The Environmental Magazine is a bimonthly “clearinghouse” of information, news and resources for people concerned about the environment who want to know “What can I do?” to make a difference. A 13-time Independent Press Awards winner and nominee, E is chock full of everything environmental -- from recycling to rainforests, and from the global village to our own backyards. Published by the nonprofit (501-c-3) Earth Action Network, Inc., E is independent of any membership organization and has no agenda to promote except that of our very diverse and dynamic movement as a whole. An excellent resource.
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- Eagles of the Upper Skagit River
Each winter, hundreds of bald eagles converge in the Upper Skagit River Watershed in Northwestern Washington. They are drawn by the thousands of spawned out salmon along the rivers. The eagles come from as far north as the Yukon and Alaska to enjoy this easy food source. They make up one of the two largest seasonal concentrations of bald eagles in the lower 48 states. The eagle migration peaks mid December to late January.
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- Friends of Schmitz Park
Schmitz Park is the last old growth forest in Seattle and is a wonderful wildlife habitat. Friends of Schmitz Park is a group of neighborhood volunteers who are dedicated to the preservation of the park as a natural area. It is the primary community group that helps to maintain the park in accordance with the objectives of the Schmitz Park Management Plan of the Seattle Parks Department. During both monthly and special work parties, volunteers remove non-native invasive plants, plant native species, pick-up litter, improve trails and salvage native plants from development sites.
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- NRDC BioGems
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is an environmental action group supported by more than 1 million members and BioGems Defenders nationwide. Our mission is to safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. By fighting in court, working through Congress, and mobilizing millions of people worldwide, NRDC has stopped powerful corporate interests from destroying our clean air and water, public lands and wildlife habitats. The NRDC BioGems campaign empowers citizens to take effective online action in defense of our planet's most endangered wild places.
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- PAWS Wildlife Center
As the largest wildlife rehabilitation facility in the Pacific Northwest, PAWS provides care for nearly half the wild animals rehabilitated in the state of Washington. Their site has information on what to do if you find a baby mammal or bird that you think is abandoned.
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- Sarvey Wildlife Center
Sarvey Wildlife Center is located on 5 acres just south of Arlington, Washington and gives thousands of rehabilitating animals a second chance. Two ponds on the east side of the property are secured for recovering deer and waterfowl and the clinic, educational building, eagle flight, and a wide range of caging on the west half of the property. Their goals are to provide wildlife rehabilitation and care, educate and sensitize the public to the needs of wildlife, and expand and share the existing rehabilitation knowledge base. They have strong need for physical and financial volunteers.
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- The Seattle Audubon Society
Seattle Audubon cultivates and leads a community that values and protects birds and the natural environment. Seattle Audubon envisions a healthy environment in balance with nature, where people enjoy, respect, and care for the natural resources that sustain the community of life. They have a thriving volunteer program, and offer many great educational seminars and field trips.
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- Sierra Club
The Sierra Club's members are more than 750,000 of your friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, they work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. Get involved locally! The Sierra Club has chapters across the country. Your chapter offers opportunities for hikes and other outings, activism on local and state issues, and much more.
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- Snow Leopard Trust
Based in Seattle, the Snow Leopard Trust supports conservation of the snow leopards through improving the livelihood of the mountain people who share their habitat. Completely dependent on their livestock for food and income, in the past, poverty often forced the villagers to hunt the snow leopards to prevent attacks on their herds. In exchange for not hunting the leopards, the Trust helps the families earn a living through their traditional felting skills and offer their beautiful handcrafted items for sale. I bought these gorgeous felted pillows which feature snow leopard prints as well as cat toys felted from camels and decorated with yak or horsehair tails. My cats love them! Makes great gifts, too!
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- The Songbird Foundation
The Songbird Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that educates and motivates people to make sustainable choices to preserve migratory songbirds. One of the greatest threats to migratory songbirds is the surge in aggressive sun-grown coffee. In Latin America, coffee has traditionally been grown under the canopy of the rain forest, and a majority of the remaining regional rain forest is on coffee farms. Good tips on how the average consumer can help.
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- Surfrider Foundation USA
The Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit grassroots organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of our world’s oceans, waves and beaches. Founded in 1984 by a handful of visionary surfers in Malibu, California, the Surfrider Foundation now maintains over 50,000 members and 80 chapters worldwide. They have had many successful campaigns to keep our coastal waters environmentally friendly. The core activities and campaigns that the Surfrider Foundation uses to protect our oceans, waves and beaches fall into the categories of Clean Water, Beach Access, Beach Preservation and Protecting Special Places. Their site has a map where you can click to see what programs are available in your coastal community.
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- Washington Toxics Coalition
Washington Toxics Coalition protects public health and the environment by eliminating toxic pollution. WTC promotes alternatives, advocates policies, empowers communities, and educates people to create a healthy environment.
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- The Wilderness Society
The Mission of The Wilderness Society is to deliver to future generations an unspoiled legacy of wild places, with all the precious values they hold: biological diversity; clean air and water; towering forests, rushing rivers, and sage-sweet, silent deserts.
Their programs include protecting the last great American wilderness area, the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, from oil and gas drilling; Staving off logging and road building on 58 million acres of roadless lands; Curbing the abuse of our lands by off-road vehicle users; Protecting wild places within the lower 48 states from rampant oil development.
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- Wild Watch Cams
Maintained by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife you can view bats, eagles, owls, martins, seal, salmon, heron and a variety of other wildlife in live video cams. They use high-quality miniature security cameras to observe wildlife from a safe, non-intrusive distance; and broadband Internet transmissions to bring live views of wildlife to their biologists' desks and to your home.
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- Wildlife Resources & Fact Sheet
Maintained by PAWS list contains pages of valuable information pertaining to the habits of Pacific Northwest wildlife including coexisting, tips on feeding, and do's and don't.
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