Black Birders Week Event at Cattail Marsh, TX

Join Healthy Gulf to learn how to identify birds by sound and experience the restorative effects of tuning into the natural soundscapes of the Golden Triangle. Then channel that connection into action and learn to write substantive public comments to make your voice heard on environmental justice issues affecting your community.

Where: Cattail Marsh, 4233 Babe Zaharias Dr, Beaumont, TX 77705

When: Saturday, May 23 at 11am – 1pm

Hosted by: Kourtney Revels, Southeast Texas Coastal Organizer and Alicia Thomas, Staff Scientist

Black communities across the Gulf Coast face disproportionate and compounding threats from environmental pollution and climate disaster, threats that endanger public health, cultural preservation, and biodiversity in one of the most ecologically rich and unique regions in North America. Louisiana’s unique combination of coastal wetlands, pine forests, and the Mississippi River Delta makes it a critical corridor within the Mississippi Flyway and an irreplaceable hub for migratory birds and the communities that have always called this landscape home. This year’s Black Birders Week theme, Flyways and Freedom: Advocacy, Action, and Future, invites us to explore how the same threats degrading bird habitat also impact our frontline communities, and what environmental justice could look like if we built it around the right of every living thing to move, to belong, and to thrive. We welcome all to celebrate the Black leaders on our staff who live and work at the frontlines in environmental science, advocacy, and community organizing.

Please email communications@healthygulf.org with any questions.

Photo credit: NPS