The Nature Conservancy’s Community Engagement Specialist, Debra Williams, will share her experiences awakening people’s interests in nature through the story of the monarch butterfly. This charismatic creature has been a long-time catalyst for connecting people with the environment. Learn about the monarch’s life history, its impacts on our food, and its role as an ambassador for nature conservation.

REGISTER HERE

Join ANS Director of Conservation Eliza Cava and DC Conservation Advocate Ari Eisenstadt for a virtual evening all about advocacy! We will share news and updates on what we’re working on now all around the DC region, in Northern Virginia, central Maryland, and Washington, DC. There’s a lot going on. We’ll make sure you not only understand the basics of each issue, but know how you can join us to take action and make your voice heard right away: 

• Getting plastic bottle pollution out of DC’s waterways
• Making sure Washington, DC’s major energy utilities actually help meet the District’s Clean Energy DC Plan
• Fighting irresponsible, climate-harming expansions of the Beltway & I-270
• Getting redevelopment of Rt. 1 Right in Fairfax County
• Protecting Fairfax’s drinking water and remaining agricultural lands
• How ANS is approaching our region’s housing crisis in alignment with our sustainable land use priorities.

 You’ll have opportunities to take real, impactful action right there during the Café, and learn how you can use your voice to support conservation priorities around the region. Join us!

Before coming to ANS as Director of Conservation in 2016, Eliza Cava spent five years at Defenders of Wildlife analyzing federal projects and policies on renewable energy, land management and wildlife conservation. Eliza holds a B.A. in Environmental Education and a Master of Environmental Science degree with a focus on wetlands and watershed ecology, and she is a Senior Fellow in the Environmental Leadership Program’s Chesapeake Regional Network. She has also worked as an environmental and outdoor educator.

Ari Eisenstadt is the DC Conservation Advocate for ANS. He works on climate change policies, water quality, and environmental justice in DC. Before joining ANS in 2019, he worked as an environmental consultant dealing with toxic contamination on construction sites, and served as an AmeriCorps member with City Year New York. Ari has a bachelors degree in geology and a masters degree in chemical oceanography from the University of Rochester. He grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and loves to play music, draw, and hang out with his cat, Archie.

Tickets $5-15.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

In an effort to bring more functionality to registering for conservation events, we are experimenting this Spring with using our adult program registration system. Please note your log-in credentials from Action Network will not work in the new system. Unless you have already signed up for a previous class such as a Naturalist Hour or a field trip, you will have to create a new account. We appreciate your patience! If you have any questions please email pam.oves@anshome.org.

Dr. Mathew Ogburn, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Senior Scientist, will share the amazing life history of river herring! Each spring, millions of river herring swim from the ocean to spawn in streams throughout the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. While that sounds like a lot of fish, their current numbers are only a small fraction of the vast populations that used to arrive annually. Come learn about the incredible river herring, what we know about their history in the Chesapeake Bay, and the technology that’s helping us figure out how to bring more of them back.

REGISTER HERE