#conservation-efforts

#conservation-efforts

Less than 100 years ago, the American bison was teetering on the verge of extinction. By the beginning of the 20th century, the species' numbers fell from herds of roughly four million to less than 1,000 individuals. The impact on Native Americans was devastating. In 1905, William Hornaday, Theodore Roosevelt, and others formed the American Bison Society (ABS) to help save bison from extinction the first national effort to save an American wildlife species.

Adult Wyoming toads, raised in captivity by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have been released for years as part of the recovery efforts.

The seal population has increased from about 4,000, considered nearly extinct, in the late 1980s to about 50,000, indicating successful conservation efforts in Lithuania.

The Trump administration is pushing fast forward on the extinction crisis. If we get rid of the science that shows environmental problems, we won't have to think about it, but that won't make them go away.

The bird had flown headfirst into the Bank of America building, a 72-storey modernist skyscraper in the heart of Dallas.