You should be reading this
Texas birder, author, and ecotourism consultant Ted Lee Eubanks is well-established as one of the most original and influential voices in American birding. His “Who Advocates for Birding” (.pdf) from the January 2010 edition of Birding magazine is one of the best commentaries I’ve read maybe ever and one I often come back to when considering the future of birding and birding organizations. It’s amazing and fortunate that he’s part of the bird blogosphere too.
If you are not reading his blog, you absolutely should be. His latest run of fantastic pieces on the conservation movement’s responsibility in light of the BP oil disaster should be required reading at the highest levels of environmental NGOs. At the very least, it should be required reading for birders who care.
Go there now, spread it around, you can thank me later.
I’ll second this. I just started reading his blog, and I definitely consider it required reading now.