The Places We Protect: Cosumnes River Preserve скачать в хорошем качестве

The Places We Protect: Cosumnes River Preserve

Lasting Legacy to Save the Pacific Flyway Picture it. You're traveling cross-country. You're tired. Hungry. Just looking for a warm meal and a soft pillow to rest your head. But everywhere you look: "Closed." Every gas station, boarded up. Every hotel, shuttered. This is what it’s like for millions of birds that depend on California's Central Valley as a pit stop on their migration over thousands of miles twice every year. California’s Central Valley used to be a rich wilderness, dotted with lush wetland terrain that made it prime habitat for tens of millions of birds on their yearly migration from the taiga of the Arctic to the coastlines of South America—the Pacific Flyway. These days 95 percent of those critical wetlands are gone along with many of birds. Yet, millions of waterbirds are hanging on because they've adapted to using flooded farmlands as replacement habitat. Unfortunately, the amount of habitat available to migratory birds is minimal and what’s left is at increasing risk.