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'It's our job to protect it' “You just had to put up with the fact that this wildlife is endangered, and it's our job to protect it,” Avellar said.
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 77 bird species in the United States are threatened with extinction. [1] The IUCN has classified each of these species into one of three conservation statuses: vulnerable VU, endangered EN, and critically endangered CR (v. 2013.2, the data is current as of March 5, 2014 [1]).
The introduction of the Wildlife Conservation Plan for Migratory Shorebirds is a national framework focused on the research and development of migratory shorebirds within Australia. [11] The EPBC Act 1999 has assisted the development of the Conservation Plan to facilitate the survival of bird species. [8]
East Asian–Australasian Shorebird Site Network; Australasian Wader Studies Group; Refuelling station of East Asian Migratory Flyaway; Siberian ornithology - Australian style, 1903 Retrieved 4 January 2017. Why North Korea is a safe haven for birds (BBC).
The bird deaths on Chicago's shores also prompted the Milwaukee County Zoo to close its aviary "out of an abundance of caution." In an announcement, the zoo said the closure would last "for the ...
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Grays Harbor is designated as a Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network Site, recognizing this internationally significant shorebird habitat. Although the refuge occupies only two percent of the intertidal habitat of Grays Harbor, it hosts up to 50 percent of the shorebirds that stage in the estuary .
The refuge's five-mile stretch along the Delaware Bay is a major resting and feeding area for migrating shorebirds and wading birds each spring. The Delaware Bay shoreline has gained international recognition as a major shorebird staging area in North America second only to the Copper River Delta in Alaska. Each year hundreds of thousands of ...