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Tag: Environmental Conservancy
Climate Change Threat
On this Earth Week, environmental advocates talk about their efforts to raise awareness and get more people to pay attention to climate change. From extreme weather, and shorter ski seasons, to the threat of new invasive species and changes in habit for songbirds and wildlife, they say climate change is having a dramatic impact on…
Eagle Population Soaring
The pesticide DDT nearly wiped out New York’s eagle population in the late 1960s. Since DDT was banned in 1972, the eagle population has made a comeback. This year, New York’s DEC reported a record number of 323 nesting pairs of eagles in the state. While the bird’s recovery has been remarkable over the past…
Critter Crossings
The Nature Conservancy and the New York State Department of Transportation are teaming up on a new pilot program that hopes to protect wildlife in the Adirondacks with walkways that run underneath dangerous highways. A walkway has been installed inside a culvert on NYS Route 12 in Alder Creek in the Western Adirondacks to help…
Invasive Insect Threatens Adirondack Forests
Also this week crews with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program have been surveying hemlock trees on Prospect Mountain in Lake George where a dreaded insect, called the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, was discovered in early July. The insect has infested forests in other parts of New…
Interview with Director of Zoology and Conservation, Nathalie Santerre [bonus clip]
Parc Safari’s Director of Zoology and Conservation, Nathalie Santerre gives us more information about the recently born cheetah cubs, named Mosi and Jelanie, and hear about conservation programs Nathalie and other zoologists hope will help keep the cheetah from becoming extinct. This summer we here at Mountain Lake PBS aired a special series called “RARE:…
Cheetah Cubs
Two cheetah cubs, the first ever born in Quebec, have become celebrities on Facebook, and will get to meet visitors at the Parc Safari Wildlife Reserve in Hemmingford, Quebec beginning September 1st. The cubs, born in captivity in May, are part of a breeding program zoologists hope will help to restore the cheetah population worldwide,…
Parc Safari’s Director of Zoology and Conservation
Parc Safari’s Director of Zoology and Conservation, Nathalie Santerre, joins us this week to talk about putting the cubs on display at the zoo in two weeks, as well as the plight of cheetahs around the world and efforts to add them to the Endangered Species List. The cubs will be on display through the…
RARE: Conservation Efforts in the Adirondacks at the Adirondack Research Consoritium Conference
RARE: Conservation Efforts in the Adirondacks at the Adirondack Research Consoritium Conference was held in Lake Placid, NY to discuss to discuss efforts to help threatened and endangered species. These are some of the projects that conservation groups are working on this summer to help wildlife in the Adirondacks. From testing the iconic common loon…
Wildlife Defenders
There are dedicated scientists & researchers working here in the Adirondack Park to help protect threatened and endangered wildlife. For decades, The Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation in Saranac Lake has been documenting the impact mercury pollution is having on one of the Adirondack’s iconic symbols, the Common Loon. Our Jack LaDuke tagged along on…
Rehabilitators care for wildlife
Rehabilitators in Wilmington, New York care for animals at a wildlife refuge they created. Produced, written and edited by Paul Larson. Videography by Ben Carstens of WFFF Local 44. This project is supported by a grant awarded to Mountain Lake PBS by New York State’s Empire State Development and the I Love NY Division of…
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