Today
Today the WCS is at work on some 500 projects in 60 nations around the world that are intended to help protect both the wild life and the wild places in which they live. It has given support to the Forests Now Declaration, which calls for new market based mechanisms to protect tropical forests.
The Wilderness Conservation Society is working in conjunction with the Lava Lake Institute for Science and Conservation to document the movement of pronghorn through the Craters of the Moon/Pioneer Mountain region of central Idaho. In two years of study they have found that pronghorn move up to 150 miles from their summer ground to their winter range, meeting up with herds from Montana and eastern Idaho.A Narrow Path for Pronghorns
Read more about this topic: Wildlife Conservation Society
Famous quotes containing the word today:
“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live...”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 30:19.
“We have today and I could call their name
Who know exactly what is out of joint
To make their verse and their excuses lame.
They’ve tried to grasp with too much social fact
Too large a situation.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)