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Speaker:? Donnie Dann, Conservationist

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Brief Summary

?Bird watching is now the nation?s second fastest growing hobby, after gardening. Witness the growing popularity of bird walks and the rapid growth of digital field guides and other birding accessories. Today birds face a wide variety of threats ? including habitat loss, free-roaming cats, and collisions with glass, communication towers, and vehicles. Many local and national groups are working diligently to respond to these multiple threats, but there are ways individuals can help. Please join the Lake-to-Prairie Wild Ones and conservation activist Donnie Dann as he covers the main issues of bird conservation?both the threats and the efforts at confronting them.

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BIOGRAPHY

Donnie Dann is passionately involved with several environmental organizations including the Chicago Audubon Society, Illinois Audubon Society, American Bird Conservancy, American Birding Association, The Nature Conservancy, Illinois Nature Preserves Commission, and Lake Michigan Wind Energy Advisory Council. He is also a current advocacy chair of the Bird Conservation Network and has been a volunteer naturalist for the Lake County Forest Preserve District?s Ryerson Conservation Area for more than 14 years, teaching environmental education to children.

Closer to home, Donnie helped secure grant funds for restoration of habitat at Foley?s Pond, a migratory bird hot spot in Highland Park. He successfully urged local governments, including the City of Highland Park and the Village of Barrington to enact bird-friendly building ordinances. Dann also publishes a bi-monthly newsletter, Conservation Alert, to promote conservation consciousness.