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• In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt created the first National Wildlife Refuge on Pelican Island in Florida at the urging of state-level Audubon groups.
• George Bird Grinnell founded the National Audubon Society in 1886 to protect water bird populations from being destroyed.
• John James Audubon was a naturalist and author who catalogued bird species and warned about the destruction of their natural habitats.
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John James Audubon had no direct connection to the Audubon Society, but he was an inspiration to later generations of naturalists.
The National Audubon Society has been largely successful in protecting
American birds from extinction.
The work of James Audubon and the Audubon Society has helped to protect birds in the United States.