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Please Give A Hoot - Help Protect Imperiled Owls!

A major motion picture based on Carl Hiaasen’s eco-novel Hoot will be released on May 5. Hoot is about a group of teenagers taking on Florida developers who are destroying the habitat for burrowing owls. The release of Hoot presents a great opportunity to educate the public about the real-life plight of imperiled owls – such as burrowing owls in California and cactus ferruginous pygmy-owls in Arizona – as well as endangered wildlife nationwide.

The Center is organizing volunteers to hand out information to interested moviegoers in front of dozens of theaters the weekend of May 5 to 7. Volunteers will also collect petition signatures supporting protection of owls and their habitat.

The Center will hold a press conference at one of the movie openings in California to focus on the decline of California's burrowing owls. We will also issue a nationwide press release about the plight of imperiled owls.

Please help spread the word about the Give a Hoot campaign to protect endangered owls. You can help by distributing information and collecting petition signatures from interested moviegoers during the opening weekend of Hoot (May 5–7) and beyond. An action kit containing fact sheets, petitions and information about endangered owls is available at www.Hoot4owls.org or by contacting our office.

If you are interested in volunteering to hand out information and collect petition signatures, please contact Kelli Shields at kshields@biologicaldiversity.org or (415) 436-9682 x300.

If you are part of an organization that would like to participate in the Give a Hoot campaign by organizing volunteers or signing on to a letter requesting state protection for the burrowing owl in California, please contact Jeff Miller at jmiller@biologicaldiversity.org.