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Marsh Migration: Adaptation in Local Communities

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This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Along the South Atlantic Coast of the United States, seas are rising at accelerating rates and salt marsh ecosystems cannot keep pace without a pathway to higher ground. The South Atlantic Salt Marsh Initiative (SASMI) has created a regional plan that is the pathway to the protection, restoration and migration of salt marsh.

In Adaptation in Local Communities, see how local communities are adapting and working to restore and prepare for the changes that will come with rising seas and a migrating marsh. This is the last video

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Rough-legged Hawk Mom Feeds Her Chicks at a Nest Along Alaska’s Colville River

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This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Watch as a pair of Rough-legged Hawks work together to raise their chicks, in this excerpt from our documentary on the raptors of the Colville River Special Area, Alaska. Cornell Lab cinematographer Gerrit Vyn takes you up onto a steep cliffside for intimate views of the mom tending her growing chicks during the long days of the Arctic summer.

Watch the full Colville River Raptors documentary and learn more: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/alaska-colville-river-arctic-hawks-falcons-video

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a membership institution dedicated to interpreting and conserving the earth’s biological diversity

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Marsh Migration Primer

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This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Along the South Atlantic Coast of the United States, seas are rising at accelerating rates and salt marsh ecosystems cannot keep pace without a pathway to higher ground. The South Atlantic Salt Marsh Initiative (SASMI) has created a regional plan that is the pathway to the protection, restoration and migration of salt marsh.

In this primer, dive into what is happening regionally and why allowing and creating pathways for marsh to migrate is vital to its survival, as well as our own. This is the first video in

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