RED-COCKADED WOODPECKERS: ENDANGERED TO THREATENED

April 28, 2025.Reading time 4 minutes.

A Conservation Success Story In Progress In Oct 2024, Red-cockaded Woodpeckers were downlisted from endangered to threatened status under the Endangered Species Act. It is now April 2025. April is Earth Month. A month set aside to showcase all the days spent conserving, protecting, managing the nature that surrounds us. To showcase, with the 22nd […]

SOME GOOD CONSERVATION NEWS: WOOD STORKS HAVE RECOVERED. ARE BEING DELISTED UNDER ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

February 20, 2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

Storks are creatures of folklore. As North America’s only native stork, when Europeans arrived, wood storks assumed the role of baby delivery from White Storks. This celebrity status did not protect them. Populations plunged from 20,000 nesting pairs in the 1930s to less than 5,000 pairs by the 1970s. Almost all nesting in the Everglades […]