Tag: defenders of wildlife

Nature Break: Bog Turtle

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The Bog Turtle(Glyptemys muhlenbergii) is North America’s smallest turtle. It’s listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because its habitat is rapidly disappearing and remaining patches are fragmented by roads and other infrastructure.

https://defenders.org/wildlife/bog-turtle

Defenders Of Wildlife works on the ground, in the courts, and on Capitol Hill to protect and restore imperiled wildlife and habitats across North America.

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Defenders Defines: Bear Smart

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What does it mean to be bear smart? Join Rockies & Plains Senior Representative, Erin Edge, to find out!

https://defenders.org/blog/2023/10/beary-smart-missoula-montana-utilizes-coexistence-tactics-grizzly-and-black-bears

Transcript:

Bear smart – basically the idea is to have information to the public that’s readily accessible, that helps people understand what it is, what it means to live with bears on your landscape. And so, with a lot of new people moving to the West, and also with just people that have lived here for a long time in bear populations, expanding into areas they haven’t been in a … Continue

Do electric fences help protect livestock?

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Travel to Montana, where Defenders Of Wildlife worked with our partners to protect a hobby farm from Grizzly Bears. You can learn more about how we’re promoting coexistence at: https://defenders.org/issues/promoting-coexistence

Defenders Of Wildlife works on the ground, in the courts, and on Capitol Hill to protect and restore imperiled wildlife and habitats across North America.

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Celebrating The First International Bison Transfer

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A family group of Plains Bison were moved across the U.S.-Canadian border this week as a gift from the Fort Peck Tribes in Montana to Mosquito Grizzly Bear’s Head Lean Man First Nations in Saskatchewan, marking the first time bison from Yellowstone National Park have crossed into Canada!

Read more at https://defenders.org/newsroom/historic-transfer-brings-yellowstone-bison-first-nations-canada

Defenders Of Wildlife works on the ground, in the courts, and on Capitol Hill to protect and restore imperiled wildlife and habitats across North America.

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