"Vt. group turns international focus on saving a disappearing songbird; A thrush that summers in N.E. facing threats" by Wilson Ring, Associated Press | July 29, 2010
The Bicknell’s thrush spends the summers and breeds at high elevations in New York’s Adirondacks, northern New England, and Canada. It winters in the Caribbean islands. (Vermont Institute of Natural Science/Associated Press/File)
MONTPELIER — A small Vermont environmental organization is leading an international effort to protect the habitat of the Bicknell’s thrush, a disappearing songbird that breeds in the highlands of the Northeast and Canada and spends winters in the islands of the Caribbean.
The Vermont Center for Ecostudies brought together dozens of public and private scientists from the United States, Canada, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti and developed a long-range plan to increase the number of Bicknell’s thrushes by 25 percent over the next 50 years.
The species, considered by some bird experts to be the flagship species of New England bird conservation, is estimated to have a worldwide population of up to 126,000, but specialists say habitat loss and other environmental threats are causing a decline in the population through much of its range.
I'll bet you are to blame, human.
The conservation plan for the Bicknell’s thrush, due to be formally released this week, calls for working with timber companies and others in North America to protect high-altitude breeding habitat and finding ways to protect its winter habitat, most notably on the island of Hispaniola....
There are also threats from acid rain and climate change....
“Personally, I think that we as a society have an obligation to protect things like Bicknell’s thrush from going extinct,’’ David Pashley, vice president for conservation programs at the Virginia-based American Bird Conservancy, said. “To those of us in the conservation community, it’s not just aesthetic. It’s not just economic. It’s not just cultural. It’s a moral obligation.’’
I agree we have the obligation to preserve life.
That is why the never-ending wars based on lies are so troubling.
I'm not trying to be cold or cruel here; however....
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Only an agenda-pushing paper could be so arrogant.
