Inquiry: Jeff Wells: THE BIRDER'S CONSERVATION HANDBOOK

• Artist: Mark Lynch
• Title: Jeff Wells: THE BIRDER'S CONSERVATION HANDBOOK
• Album: Inquiry
• Length: 29:27 minutes (10.76 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 51Kbps (VBR)

Did you know that 58% of the area of the lower 48 states no longer supports natural vegetation? Or that 57% of all ecological communities in the United States are “imperiled” or “vulnerable”? One of the important indicators of these recent environmental changes are the dramatic decreases in certain bird populations. Birds are important indicators of the “health” of our environment and their declines are due to factors like climate change, habitat loss and degradation, poor water management and the effects of sprawl. On Inquiry tonight is JEFFREY V. WELLS, Senior Scientist for the Boreal Song Bird Initiative, Visiting Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and former Director of Bird Conservation for the National Audubon Society. His new book THE BIRDER’S CONSERVATION HANDBOOK: 100 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS AT RISK, lists those species most at risk and what can be done about it.