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website, operated by the City, located at 670-acre Elawa Farm, includes nature center, live animals, wildlife sanctuary, museum, and biological station Wildwood Nature Center: Park Ridge: Cook: Chicago area: website, operated by Park Ridge Park District, 5 acres, live animals, nature exhibits Willowbrook Wildlife Center: Glen Ellyn: DuPage ...
The wooded portion of the Wildlife Sanctuary features cottonwood, hackberry, silver maple, shingle oak, and black walnut. [3] Ornithologists have identified 81 different species of birds. [2] The sanctuary and its trails are free and open to the public. [3] The sanctuary is located at 2315 Clear Lake Avenue, Springfield, Illinois. [1]
One UNESCO World Heritage Site in Illinois, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, is protected and listed as a state-owned historic site. Two of the eight World Heritage Site structures exemplifying the 20th-Century architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright are also located in Illinois: Unity Temple and the Robie House , and are protected by local and ...
The Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge is a 11,122-acre (45.01 km 2) wetland wildlife refuge located in Waterford Township in Fulton County, Illinois across the Illinois River from the town of Havana. Only 3,000 acres (12 km 2 ) are currently managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Illinois River National Wildlife and Fish ...
Dr. Laurie Marker, founder of the Namibia, Africa-based Cheetah Conservation Fund, takes a selfie in front of the bronze cheetah sculpture in front of the headquarters for Brown & Brown Insurance ...
The Illinois Audubon Society was founded in April 1897 and is Illinois' oldest non-profit independent conservation organization. [2] As of 2017, it has 18 chapters throughout Illinois. [3] Its executive offices are located at the Adams Wildlife Sanctuary, an Illinois Audubon Society-managed sanctuary on the east side of Springfield. [4]
Wildlife Prairie Park, also known as the Hazel & Bill Rutherford Wildlife Prairie Park, is located in Peoria County, Illinois, approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of downtown Peoria in central Illinois. Opened in the 1970s, it has most recently been operated as a not-for-profit corporation since 2013.
Adams County, Illinois Pike County, Illinois: 1958 11,600 acres (47 km 2) [246] Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge: Holt County: 1935 7,415 acres (30.01 km 2) [247] Mingo National Wildlife Refuge: Stoddard County Wayne County: 1944 21,676 acres (87.72 km 2) [248] Ozark Cavefish National Wildlife Refuge: Lawrence County: 1991 40 acres (0.16 ...