News — wildlife

NPR article and photos

salmon bring back nitrogen and other nutrients from the sea

Forests on East Coast 

Forest Service on Species in Forests

science news article on protecting wildlife habitat and limiting roads in order to limit pandemics- save wildlife, wild places, and prevent disease

So preventing roads into wild places will save wildlife and us!   And planting food sources for stressed wildlife and for stressed people will help both. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46151-9

  Mary Warwick, Head of Houston Humane Society's Wildlife Center, and volunteers, gathered, heated up, and fed bats suffering from hypothermia during freezing temperatures.  They had fallen from under the bridge.  These free tail bats eat tons of mosquitos. 

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link  Marchs, boycotts, protests outside embassies, fiction, recordings of whalesongs along with general distrust of lying institutions and politicians during the Vietnam War- all led to the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Pelley amendment.   Friends and I circulated petitions, oranized writing  letters  to newspapers, printed save the whale t-shirts, read Mind in  the Waters and John Lily's books, Merwin's poems,  bought whale books,  organized groups, got films and speaker about wildlife, hosted Greenpreace talks, etc.....