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Yellowstone May Lose Pronghorn Antelope Wildlife Conservation Society July 10, 2006
"It's amazing that this marathon migration persists in a nation of almost 300 million people," said WCS researcher Joel Berger, the study's lead author. "At the same time, the migration is in real trouble, and needs immediate recognition and protection" According to Berger and his co-authors, Steve Cain and Kim Murray Berger, safeguarding the migration route would be relatively easy, since the antelope population has used the same corridor for so long, unlike other overland migrants, such as caribou, which often change routes from year to year. While pronghorn are abundant in many areas of the American West, Berger says there are both biological and historical reasons to preserving this particular population, which numbers around 200-300 animals. "The protection of this migration corridor is more than symbolic," He added, "An entire population from a national park could be eliminated, leaving a conspicuous gap in the ecology and function of native predator-prey interactions." Canada's Yellowstone Too Small for Wildlife A new scientific report by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a 110-year-old science-based conservation organization, says that Northwest Territories' Nahanni National Park Reserve — one of Canada's most beloved and storied national parks — is too small to maintain its nearly pristine population of grizzly bears, caribou and Dall's sheep. This article is a modified news release from the Wildlife Conservation Society. Recommend this article? Comments? >Digg this article | >Hugg this article | Contact News options
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Pronghorn antelope. Image by Julie Larsen Maher of Wildlife Conservation Society.
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