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Bald Eagle Taken Off Endangered List
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Too much advertising on the site so i’ll post it here. Asbolutely amazing to come from 417 eagles to almost 10,000. A bit of info anyway for the bird lovers out there.
By H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press (Discovery.com)
June 28, 2007 ? The American bald eagle marked a four-decade fight for survival Thursday as the government declared the bird ? a national symbol ? no longer requires the protection of the federal Endangered Species Act.
“Today I am proud to announce the eagle has returned,” Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne proclaimed at a ceremony near the Jefferson Memorial.
The Interior Department made the recovery official by removing the eagle from the list of threatened species under the species protection law. The bird had been reclassified from endangered to threatened in 1995.
Today there are nearly 10,000 bald eagles in the contiguous 48 states, compared to a documented 417 in 1963 when the bird was on the verge of extinction everywhere except in Alaska and Canada where it has continued to thrive.
Twas big news. Hopefully we’ll see some more along those lines from our own shores thanks to the efforts of people likes of our John Griffin.
Yeh i have to say fair play – I was reading about the work they are doing to reintroduce the red kites into Ireland a couple of days ago.
The things we take for granted!Birds like the Kites could be a real eco tourism attraction. Anyone who’s heard of Gigrin Farm over in Wales will know about the large crowds that visit the feeding station there. I think the farmer also keeps a cottage which he rents out … which is nearly always booked out: http://www.gigrin.co.uk/and/redkitecottagebookings.html . That’s one clever farmer.
Very true Aidan!
It’s amzing to me that more people in farming and agriculture haven’t taken notice of such a win-win opportunity!
Something like this works everywere..for everyone!
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Woohoo! Who’s up for a spot of eagle hunting?
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LOL, I think the protections remain in place, even if Shrub is cutting down forests and cutting conservation budgets.
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