During its first decade, the partnership installed approximately 90 acres of artificial habitat, improving about 875…
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Mike Niziolek spent thirty years transforming his 150-acre property into a wetland, now the former AP biology teacher is creating ‘bio supermarkets’ for wildlife
Mike Niziolek, a former AP biology teacher decided that he did not want to limit his…
In 1954, aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin donated over 2,500 acres of his Chesapeake Bay hunting preserve; today the refuge spans 4,548 acres and protects migratory birds
Chesapeake Bay (Image Credit: iStock) A piece of Chesapeake Bay marshland that once formed part of…
In 2024, Colorado stepped up restoration for the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse; two years later, a new project is expanding habitat protection
Preble’s meadow jumping mouse (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Colorado’s efforts to protect the threatened Preble’s meadow jumping…
In 1964, Elizabeth Hird and her husband bought Connecticut’s Outer Island; in 1995 she donated it in his memory so it could remain protected for wildlife, research and education
Connecticut’s Outer Island (Image Credit: outerisland.org) In 1964, Elizabeth Hird and her husband, Basil Rauch, purchased…
Conservationists removed tens of thousands of invasive rats from a Pacific island to save its wildlife; they accidentally wiped out an aggressive mosquito species too
Representative image of Asian tiger mosquito When conservationists cleared tens of thousands of invasive rats from…