Save Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary

Urgent funding deadline: December 31, 2025

Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary is at risk from a housing development! On an annual basis, half a million birds depend on Bolivar Flats to rest and refuel. This site has a rare international listing as a “Globally Important Bird Area”, and 300 bird species have been documented here. And on any given day, you can share the Flats with as many as 50 bird species!

In the 1980s, Houston Audubon first took action to protect Bolivar Flats, located across the Galveston Ferry on Bolivar Peninsula. Since that time, we have secured 1,240 acres of this critical habitat. The last missing piece is under a tight final purchase deadline as $3 million is needed to prevent the already planned and platted development.  

Your financial support is greatly appreciated and needed now to bring this last remaining conservation puzzle piece “under our wing”.

Update: August 13, 2025

Update: August 9, 2025

Update: July 18, 2025

Some of the Birds Who Use Bolivar Flats

*Threatened/endangered species

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