Right now, over 1 million plant and animal species are threatened with extinction and the average population sizes of wildlife have dropped by around 70% since 1970. We’ve already lost half of the world’s corals and lose forest areas the size of 27 football fields every minute.
So what’s causing all this? And what can we do to turn things around?
Journey into the Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico with Bryan Bird, our Southwest Program Director, and our Wildlands Network partners as they survey for the rare Pacific Marten.
Trail cameras capture images and not animals and cat food is safe for martens.
Hi, I’m Bryan Bird, Southwest Program Director for Defenders of Wildlife, and we’re out here on the Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico with our partners Wildlands Network.
We’re setting out camera traps for Martes caurina, this is the Pacific Marten. We’re looking for these animals up here on the Carson National Forest … Continue
Celebrate the birthday of our largest national forest with Pat Lavin, our Alaska Policy Advisor. The Tongass National Forest is an essential old-growth ecosystem that needs protecting. Learn more at defenders.org.
Video Transcript:
Today, I’m checking out the Tongass National Forest, which you can see behind me. It’s our largest national forest. And we are checking out some of the habitat that supports some of the most amazing fish and wildlife you can find.
Because it’s such a rare ecosystem type there are species dependent on this particular old-growth forest and that includes species like the Northern Goshawk, the Alexander … Continue
