We're using goats to manage invasive species.  That's right, goats.  They eat everything, even garlic mustard, honeysuckle, autumn olive ... you name it.  Our partnership is working with Allegheny GoatScape to restore portions of Frick Park to natural woodlands. We'll follow up with planting native trees and shrubs, offering educational programs, and tracking our success by monitoring birds.  Are you a birder and want to help? Mosey on over to our ongoing projects to find out how! 

The Allegheny Bird Conservation Alliance (ABCA) is a newly formed group made up of local and regional conservation organizations.  ABCA exists to encourage and enable collaborative efforts to effectively conserve birds in Western Pennsylvania.  By bringing together leaders in conservation, we can work together to focus and maximize efforts to have the greatest benefit to birds in our region.

Currently, ABCA members include the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, Allegheny Land Trust, the National Aviary, the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania, the Animal Rescue League Shelter and Wildlife Center, and the American Bird Conservancy.  The ABCA was formed as a result of a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) grant received by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 2015, which also resulted in the city of Pittsburgh being designated as an Urban Bird Treaty City by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.  This is especially meaningful as 2016 i...

The Allegheny Bird Conservation Alliance (ABCA) is a strategic partnership between local and national conservation organizations who have a strong focus on the conservation of birds.  Partner organizations include the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the National Aviary, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania, the Animal Rescue League's Shelter and Wildlife Center, the Allegheny Land Trust, and the American Bird Conservancy.  ABCA exists in order to help focus each partner organization's individual conservation efforts, and to create and identify collaboration opportunities.