Founded in 1905, the Audubon Society is a nonprofit conservation organization with 450,000 members, 700 professional staff and close to 500 local chapters throughout the Americas. The mission of Audubon is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats, for the sake of humanity and the Earth's biological diversity. Audubon employs a range of integrated strategies to engage people in conservation including science, policy, education and on-the-ground conservation to achieve its mission.