AUDUBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC
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Mission Statement
The Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania's (ASWP) mission is to connect the people of southwestern Pennsylvania to birds and nature. We work to achieve this through our programs, projects, and places. We engage thousands of children and adults at our three public sites, Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve (Fox Chapel), Todd Nature Reserve (Sarver), and Succop Nature Park (Butler), and at other locations throughout southwestern Pennsylvania.
About This Cause
We believe that conservation begins with education. Our environmental education programs are hands-on to encourage the kind of active experience that creates connections to nature. We operate Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve (Fox Chapel), Succop Nature Park (Butler), and Todd Nature Reserve (Sarver), offering three places for people to visit to experience nature on their own or through our programs. We not only encourage conservation engagement through education and outreach, we also have specific projects such as the installation of Chimney Swift habitats, Bald Eagle webcams, and the Audubon Center for Native Plants that directly involve us in the conservation of native species. We facilitate educational programs and community events year round to engage Southwestern Pennsylvanians with nature. Programs based around citizen science allow us to help people make observations of natural phenomena and collect data that can then be submitted to scientists studying particular trends. Our Citizen Science on School Grounds and Citizen Science at Senior Centers programs give students and older adults the chance to participate in the creation of natural habitat, make observations, and learn about nature in engaging ways. The programs contribute to environmental health, participants' own well-being, and scientific research. Through our Master Birder program we give intermediate birders the chance to advance their skills and share their knowledge with others. By reaching out to so many different groups with a variety of programs we provide people with options that suit them. We have long recognized the importance of native plants in conservation work, providing a healthy environment for insects, wildlife, and people, further contributing to conservation. For nearly 30 years we have been educating Southwestern Pennsylvania residents about the importance of native plants. In May 2000 we opened the Audubon Center for Native Plants (ACNP) at our Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve location in Fox Chapel. The ACNP's work is organized by a full time Plant Center Coordinator, who works with a core of volunteers to grow native plants and conduct educational outreach about their benefits, making us unique among Audubon chapters in our commitment to native plant education and propagation. Over the course of 2014-2015 twenty-nine volunteers provided 3,059 volunteer hours at our ACNP, showing a significant level of community support in addition to the number of interested native plant program participants.