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What Are Blue Spots? How Can They Help To Conserve The World’s Ocean Life?

What Are Blue Spots? How Can They Help To Conserve The World’s Ocean Life?
7 min read

How can the compatibility of human economic growth and marine life be achieved? One way is through activities like diving, snorkeling, and similar tourism, which are located where marine life thrives. Marine excursions require sites that are as pristine as possible so guest experiences are immersive and authentic — humans … [continued]

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From otters to butterflies: How Minnesota became a pioneer in nongame wildlife conservation

From otters to butterflies: How Minnesota became a pioneer in nongame wildlife conservation
6 min read

By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva

In the late 1970s, when most wildlife conservation programs in the United States focused almost exclusively on game species, a quiet but historic shift began in Minnesota. It was here that one of the nation’s first state programs dedicated to protecting so-called nongame wildlife emerged from butterflies and bats to bald eagles and river otters. That story is now told in detail by Carrol Henderson in his new book, “A National Legacy: Fifty Years of Nongame Wildlife Conservation in Minnesota.”

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