The elite one percent jet off to Nantucket http://www.care2.com/causes/produced-in-your-backyard-rethinking-energy.html to escape the stresses of city life. But the Massachusetts island also happens to be an important habitat for a seabird -- the piping plover. Now that the birds are doing well on the island from 139 breeding pairs (1986) to 689 pairs (2015), the headaches and complaints have also increased. The complaints have gotten so bad that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is considering relaxing the rules by granting a 25-year permit to the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MADFW).
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Nantucketers may like to think of themselves as a rare breed, but the only threatened http://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/pipingplover/pipingpl.html species on the beach is the piping plover. And the …show more content…
For instance, the birds in the Great Plains are struggling because wetland drainage and/or climate change are driving habitat loss. http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=4397&from=rss#.VsMLA-wq2c0
The IUCN Red List http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22693811/0 captures just how precarious the future of the plover is by examining its past, present and future challenges. The plover population is small and it had declined significantly since the 1950s. But intensive conservation efforts from the 1990s pushed their numbers up. (By the way, Nantucketers were so upset by these increased conservation efforts in the 1990s, that some resorted to "death threats, banned staffers from restaurants, and assaulted them physically and verbally" says Take Part).The IUCN Red List warns that if these intensive conservation efforts "cease, or if trends reverse, then it would warrant immediate uplisting again." The major threats
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Nantucketers may like to think of themselves as a rare breed, but the only threatened http://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/pipingplover/pipingpl.html species on the beach is the piping plover. And the …show more content…
For instance, the birds in the Great Plains are struggling because wetland drainage and/or climate change are driving habitat loss. http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=4397&from=rss#.VsMLA-wq2c0
The IUCN Red List http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22693811/0 captures just how precarious the future of the plover is by examining its past, present and future challenges. The plover population is small and it had declined significantly since the 1950s. But intensive conservation efforts from the 1990s pushed their numbers up. (By the way, Nantucketers were so upset by these increased conservation efforts in the 1990s, that some resorted to "death threats, banned staffers from restaurants, and assaulted them physically and verbally" says Take Part).The IUCN Red List warns that if these intensive conservation efforts "cease, or if trends reverse, then it would warrant immediate uplisting again." The major threats