Whooping Cranes: The Road to Survival

• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2005
• Subjects: Aquaculture and Fisheries; Northwest Territories; Canada; Wood Buffalo; Wood Buffalo National Park
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usfwspubs/16; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/usfwspubs/article/1015/viewcontent/USFWS_whooping_survival05.pdf

Whooping cranes are one of the best known of all endangered species and symbolize the struggle to maintain the vanishing creatures of this world. One scientist estimated that only 1400 whoopers survived by 1860. Their population continued to decline due to drainage of wetlands, conversion of grassla...