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A Cute Story of Sandhill Surrogacy

4 The Love Of Animals

Thankfully, the adult sandhill crane has had a right-on-schedule recovery, and he just so happened to make a friend while doing so. The Cuban sandhill and Mississippi sandhill are both subspecies of cranes that are listed as endangered and are protected under the Endangered Species Act.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

10,000 Birds

That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. The refuge is already open to upland game hunting and sport fishing.

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314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

10,000 Birds

The experience was marvelous — but it also weighed heavily on me. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. That’s one of my photos above. What a horror! What a disaster!

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