Audubon Nature Institute is a conservation leader amoung our peers.  Not only are we committed to saving our natural world, we are also working toward saving endangered species everyday.

Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species

Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species is an ambitious and innovative initiative in species conservation. The Research Center is another facility of Audubon Nature Institute and it is not open to the public. Located on New Orleans’ West Bank on the 1,200-acre grounds of the Freeport-McMoRan Audubon Species Survival Center, the Research Center is a 36,000 square-foot facility designed to house scientists whose research programs include studies in reproductive physiology, endocrinology, genetics, nuclear transfer, and the expansion of a “frozen zoo” to ensure the future of endangered species through the banking of genetic materials.

Louisiana Marine Mammal & Sea Turtle Rescue Program

Have you ever wondered what happens when a marine mammal is stranded?  Well, the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas is the equivalent of a 911 call for stranded marine mammals and sea turtles through the Louisiana Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Rescue Program.

The program monitors sea turtle and marine mammal strandings along the state’s coastline through monthly beach sweeps and maintains a database of turtle populations and migration.  The Aquarium husbandry staff recovers and rehabilitates endangered sea turtles stranded on Louisiana shorelines and eventually releases them into their native Gulf of Mexico.  But the team’s work isn’t limited to sea turtles they also help assist with a catch-and-release program to assess the health of wild dolphins in Sarasota, Florida.