10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2021
The short answer is that wilderness areas are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System and they are protected by the Wilderness Act of 1964. Simply put, wilderness areas are the most protected public lands in America. And it prohibits human infrastructure, e.g. , roads, buildings, dams, and pipelines, etc.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
As such, I am delighted to see them receive protection. Nevertheless, the fact of the matter is that federal listing has been an unprecedented success in saving threatened species in a way that localized efforts and appeals to voluntary human restraint simply have not. Naturally, not everyone is equally delighted.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2012
Not only is Spain a stronghold for these birds, but they are hard to miss — huge, bright white, social, and not in the least shy of humans and human dwelling-places. But the White Stork in Europe is a big, pretty bird that nests in plain view of humans, often in the middle of town on top of an important, prominent building.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2012
This story comes from Emily Johnson, who is a sub-permittee for a licensed wildlife rehabilitator in Helena, Montana. Grace’s high school is in Bozeman, Montana, next to a McDonald’s. Sometimes the human capacity for both cruelty and compassion can balance out in the life of a single bird. Such was the case with Russell A.
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