What are your dreams for Golden Gate Bird Alliance’s next century?
By Ilana DeBare
Yesterday we printed quotes from our volunteers about what they most appreciate about Golden Gate Bird Alliance. Today we’re sharing other responses from the Centennial survey that our volunteers filled out last year — about what they hope and envision for our next century.
Do these statements strike a chord with you? Do you have other or different ideas? Please leave a comment and share your thoughts!
What do you think Golden Gate Bird Alliance should strive to achieve in the next 100 years?
Continue rising to new challenges as they come along and coordinating with other agencies with similar agendas to promote healthy habitats for humans and wildlife alike.
Further restoration of natural habitat throughout the Bay Area.
Adapt to a changing world — not just technology, but diversity and cultural differences.
Work to make the connection between birds and people ever stronger, so that climate change policies help to protect bird habitat as well as human habitat.
Turning the huge birding community into a powerful advocacy force for conservation.
Subsidize and engage the “young” professionals (e.g. over 18 and under 40). I am 35 and I always bring down the average age.
Today’s Eco-Ed students could be tomorrow’s Audubon leaders. Photo by Monica Moore.
I would love GGBA to have an actual facility of our own, where we could teach classes, have meetings, and maybe even do a little birding and habitat maintenance — maybe in one of the regional parks?
Preserve wetlands and other safe places for birds and animals in general.
The biggest challenge will be climate change, sea level rise, and what this will mean for the birds and people in the Bay Area and globally. GGBA needs to engage in activities and partnerships that optimize habitat for the survival of birds in the next century.
We need to do our part in our own backyard to further E.O. Wilson’s project to set aside 50% of the planet for biodiversity.
Whoa!! I am convinced the operating budget must be expanded to achieve what GGBA needs to achieve. We need to do so much – and we need funds to do most of this work. As a native of the Bay Area, I see the natural environment shrinking on a daily basis – and we have to do everything we can to stop this shrinkage!
GGBA volunteers clean up shorebird habitat at Crissy Field.…