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NEW YORK, N.Y.—Today, the White House website erased any mention of climate change. Climate change is the biggest threat facing birds and people, so the ���Ĵ�ý issued the following response: 

“It will take a lot more than the stroke of a key to erase the effects of climate change, it will take a plan,” said David Yarnold (), ���Ĵ�ý’s president and CEO. “As with the healthcare millions of Americans depend on, we expect President Trump to have a science-based replacement in hand to make progress toward confronting the climate crisis threatening our birds and our communities. If so, we at ���Ĵ�ý will be there at the table.”

In 2014, ���Ĵ�ý scientists found that climate change is the biggest threat to North American birds in this century—threatening 314 species, including the . For more information about how ���Ĵ�ý protects birds and the places they need, visit .

The ���Ĵ�ý protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education and on-the-ground conservation. ���Ĵ�ý’s state programs, nature centers, chapters and partners have an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire and unite diverse communities in conservation action. Since 1905, ���Ĵ�ý’s vision has been a world in which people and wildlife thrive. ���Ĵ�ý is a nonprofit conservation organization. Learn more at  and .

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Contact: Nicolas Gonzalez, ngonzalez@audubon.org, (212) 979-3000.