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Thursday, September 15, 2005

Hurricane Katrina-WILDLIFE HABITATS DESTROYED

Excerpted from Defenders of Wildlife eNews on 3-14-05:


Wildlife Habitats Destroyed
Wetlands that once supported birds and other animals are now gone. National wildlife refuges covering 365,000 acres are still closed. Breton National Wildlife Refuge, which is the second oldest refuge in the country and celebrating its centennial this year, is now about half its original size. At least five other refuges in the area also suffered extreme damage.

A number of endangered animals rely on the refuges for survival. About 50 sea turtle nests along the Alabama coast and all ten nests at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge were lost. Many trees fell at Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, including those that housed endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers. Some good news though: It appears that a good number of Mississippi sandhill cranes (an endangered subspecies of crane) survived the storm, though some were lost. Untold numbers of other animals likely did not weather the storm so well though.

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SeEtta

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