The Audubon Naturalist Society is dropping the name Audubon. John James Audubon was a famous ornithologist, who was also an enslaver and a grave robber who seized the skulls of Native Americans.

They decided it wouldn’t fly. After months of deliberation, the New York City Audubon Society decided to change its name, citing founder John James Audubon’s legacy of white supremacy.

NYC Audubon Society drops controversial name 03:35. NEW YORK -- The New York City Audubon Society is dropping its controversial name after nearly 40 years. The organization recently voted to drop ...

The Seattle chapter of the National Audubon Society—one of the largest US chapters of the environmental organisation devoted to bird conservation, named for the artist and ornithologist John ...

The Audubon Society was not named to honor J.J. Audubon for a life of purity. It was named over 50 years after Audubon’s death as a convenient, recognizable nationwide label for a loose ...

The association with the naturalist John James Audubon is “problematic” for a local group seeking to be more inclusive. By Winnie Hu NYC Audubon will drop Audubon from its name over concerns ...

Regarding the debate about the name Audubon, it isn’t just J. J. Audubon’s treatment of humans that is/was unsavory; he also was exceedingly cruel to birds, which is ironic considering the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The Charleston Museum, 360 Meeting Street, has announced a new spotlight exhibition entitled A Feel Guide to John James Audubon's Birds of America that will be shown ...

John James Audubon, 1785-1851, is best known for his work to depict avian species in North America through paintings. But as a writer pointed out in 2020, “Audubon was also a slaveholder, a point that ...