Bird Conservation
September 30th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley and Susie Hill in Endangered Species
Comprehensive action plans have been put in place in South America and the United States to save the Cerulean Warbler and the Blue-Throated Macaw, two of our world’s most threatened birds.
Columbian conservation groups Fundacion ProAves and El Grupo Ceruleo have partnered with the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) to develop and publish a conservation plan ...
Tags: Audubon, bird, coffee, Conservation, habitat, Important Bird Area, macaw, National Geographic, warbler

September 28th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley and Maryam Fejvai in Endangered Species
Fifteen years after conservation managers made a desperate move to save the Florida panther from extinction, there’s good news. The Florida panther po...
Tags: Conservation, Florida, habitat, panther, population

September 21st, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
The Wilderness Committee is working with other leading environmental groups to establish some endangered species legislation in BC. Currently, BC and Al...
Tags: BC, endangered, environmental, habitat, killer whale, legislation, species, spotted owl, Vancouver Island marmot, Wilderness Committee

September 20th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
The Toronto Zoo manages captive breeding programs for most of their large mammals including the big cats, great apes, and giraffes. This can involve ...
Tags: breeding, captive, endangered, habitat, Komodo dragon, tiger, Toronto Zoo

September 1st, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
Europe’s coastal ecosystems are under increasing pressures including habitat loss and degradation, pollution, climate change, and overexploitation of...
Tags: bird, Climate Change, coastal, Conservation, ecosystem, Europe, European Environment Agency, fish, habitat, Wildlife

Creating Wetlands for Birds
June 29th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
The U.S. Migratory Bird Habitat Initiative has announced that they are willing to pay up to $20 million to Gulf of Mexico area landowners to flood their fields in hopes of attracting migrating birds to the clean water. An estimated 1 billion birds wi...
Tags: Conservation, Gulf, habitat, Migratory Bird, oil, US Fish and Wildlife, Wetlands


