Join Audubon Alaska November 3-11, 2017 for a trip to Cuba and learn about ongoing conservation efforts from local experts as you explore wetlands, mangroves and limestone caves of western Cuba. Visit Guanahacabibes Biosphere Reserve for an in-depth look at marine conservation programs and look for the Bee Hummingbird.  

Experience Cuba's many cultural offerings, including jazz and dance performances, art museums, a walking tour of historical Old Havana and meals in paladares (restaurants run in private homes).  Full time bilingual ornithologist and a logistics guide throughout the program. Support sustainable, conservation-based tourism in Cuba and Audubon Alaska's work in Alaska. 

See  trip details for more information and how to register.

 

Three water masses (the Alaska Coastal Current, the Bering Slope Current, and the Anadyr Current) flow north from the Bering Sea through the Bering Strait, carrying heat and nutrients north from the Pacific Ocean into the Arctic Ocean Basin. Along the way, the low salinity, nutrient-rich waters of the Bering Sea contribute to some of the world's highest marine productivity, especially in the Southern Chukchi Sea. Because of these circulation patterns, the Bering Strait is an important source of zooplankton and particulate organic carbon and is an important migratory corridor for birds and marine mammals .

 

Upwelling, the process by which bottom water is lifted to the surface, is also associated with high biological productivity. Areas with frequent upwelling events, such as the eastern Beaufort Sea near the community of Tuktoyaktuk and Liverpool Bay, are often important feeding areas for bowhead whales and other marine mammals as well as marine birds .