OUTDOOR HUB
Daniel Xu | January 24, 2014
The National Park Service (NPS) and outside wildlife experts are collaborating on new plans to conserve migrating wildlife.
Image courtesy US Fish and Wildlife Service
The National Park Service (NPS) and outside wildlife experts are collaborating on new plans to conserve migrating wildlife, drawing praise from conservation groups. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which is involved in the collaboration, points to a recently published paper in the journal Conservation Biology by NPS and independent scientists as a cause for optimism.
“The challenges of conserving migratory species that use national parks involve daunting ecological, social and philosophical questions,” said lead author Joel Berger, a senior scientist with WCS. “If we can educate landowners, counties and agencies in the US, and even foreign governments, to see that migration is an essential wildlife process, the likelihood that we can conserve these species increases. There is reason for optimism.”