Audubon Society Stateball

"You are what hope looks like to a bird."

- David Yarnold, CEO of the National Audubon Society "As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways."

- Louis Moore Bacon, the founder of Moore Capital Management, past awardee of the Audubon Medal given to him in 2013

Audubon Society Stateball, commonly shortened to Auduboniaball or just Audubon Stateball, is a non-governmental organization-dedicated countryball located on an island near off the coast of Manhattanball, New York Cityball. It is based on National Audubon Society, an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation of birds and their habitat, and has been established by the representative organization in 1947, which is 2 years after WW2 has ended. Audubon Society Stateball has many global partnering organization-dedicated countryballs (and along with their organization, partnering organizations) to help birds that migrate beyond USAball's borders, including Birds Canada (Which doesn't have a countryball dedicated to it, but it is a partner of Audubon Society), American Bird Conservancy Stateball, and many others in the Caribbean and Latin America.

History
Audubon Society Stateball was established in 1947 by the National Audubon Society, when the environmental organization started nominating awardees of the Audubon Medal. The foundation of the organization-dedicated state has influenced a lot into the environmental organization and helped in a lot more missions brought up by the National Audubon Society. Its history is based mostly on the history of the organization, National Audubon Society.

The Documentation and Ban of the Pesticide DDT (1960 - 1972)
In 1960, Audubon Society Stateball began documenting the dangers and impacts of DDT on populations of many bird species. It noted that there were such unintended consequences that occurred by the wide use of DDT in USAball, such as widespread reproductive failures in bald eagles, the evolution of DDT-resistant strains of mosquitoes, and troubling hints of pesticide accumulation in human tissues.

The result was a watershed event in Americans' understanding of their impact on the environment and wildlife. Detailed exposés on the risks of dangerously toxic chemicals such as aldrin, chlordane, dieldrin, etc. written by Audubon Society Stateball inspired conservationists and helped into paving a way for the chemicals' banishment from the marketplace. More openly, warnings from Audubon Society Stateball about overconfidence in efficacy and safety of agricultural chemicals kick-started the modern environmental movement, effecting in culminating in the formation of the federal United States EPA and its mandate to assess and control chemical pollution in air, water, and land.

The warnings then eventually led to a federal ban in USAball on most domestic uses of DDT, and it took effect in 1972, echoing similar decisions in some other countryballs. Bird species whose numbers declined so dramatically and drastically from DDT-induced reproductive failures in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s—bald eagles, peregrine falcons, orspreys, brown pelicans—have recovered handily well from the federal ban.

The Time of Other Achievements (1973 - 1999)
In 1973, Audubon Society Stateball helped and contributed into enacting the landmark Endangered Species Act, considered as USAball's toughest wildlife law, and the law successfully passed, protecting hundreds of threatened and endangered species. Later in 1980, Audubon Stateball also helped into enacting the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which became passed by USAball's Congress and is designating more than 100 million acres of federal land in  Alaskaball as new or expanded conservation system units.

In 1987, Audubon biologists from Audubon Stateball help capture the last California condor from the wild, which the bird is placed in a captive breeding program with other survivors. Next year, the first California condor chick became hatched in capitivity, which raised new hopes ensuring the species' survival.

In 1994, Audubon Stateball's dedicated organization, National Audubon Society, down-listed the bald eagle from endangered to threatened.

4 years later, Audubon Stateball along with its dedicated organization, held its first-ever Great Backyard Bird Count: about 14,000 people participated. Next year, with their 100th Christmas Bird Count, almost 50,000 participants have taken part in it at this year and is now the longest-running bird survey in the world.

A New Millennium and the Present Day (2000 - Present)
Note: Still W.I.P.

In 2002, the first urban Audubon Center was opened by its dedicated organization, with Audubon Stateball contributing into the matters of association within this center. It is located in Prospect Park, Brooklynball, New Yorkball and serves 50,000 visitors annually. The last wild California condor, which was placed in a captive breeding program, has successfully been released into the wild along with 40 other individuals of its kind.