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Once classified as endangered, the brown pelican is staging a comeback.
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1224
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North Carolina is playing a crucial role in a new international program, Partners in Flight, which is trying to save dwindling bird species.
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By the 1970s, the red wolf faced extinction. Six years after a groundbreaking experiment to save the red wolf began in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, the shy, nocturnal wolf has a chance of survival.
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The spruce-fir moss spider, which measures one-eighth of an inch and lives only in the Southern Appalachians, is in danger of extinction. In February, 1995, it was listed as an endangered species.
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3467
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Forty species of bats inhabit the nation. Of these, fifteen species, including the rare eastern big-eared bat, make their homes in the state, and approximately one-third of them are endangered or at risk.
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3608
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Located near Pittsboro, in Chatham County, the Carnivore Preservation Trust houses over 250 endangered species, including tigers and binturong. The trust seeks to preserve endangered animals, especially those living in rainforests.
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Knowing where to go and look gives nature lovers the opportunity to view endangered species in the wild. Weymouth Woods in the Sandhills is a good place to see red-cockaded woodpeckers. Viewing eagles in the Piedmont is best in the upper reaches of Jordan Lake in Chatham County. Red wolves and loggerhead sea turtles are more elusive, but the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge is best for wolves, while Hammock's Beach State Park is good for loggerheads.
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The red-cockaded woodpecker has been on the endangered species list since 1970. In 1999, the North Carolina Department of Transportation purchased 9,732 acres in northeastern Tyrrell County for $16.5 million to establish a preserve. Currently 18 woodpecker colonies live there. The land is heavily forested and fronts the Albemarle Sound and Little Alligator River. Over the next 7 years the department will set aside $175 million for wetlands preservation, stream restoration, and wildlife protection.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 7, July 1999,
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4926
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Project Bog Turtle is a conservation initiative started in 1995 by the North Carolina Herpetological Society and is the latest in a number of researches done on bog turtles dating back to the late 19th-century. Among the project's objectives are habitat protection, habitat restoration and management, involvement of landowners, and site surveys.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 65 Issue 2, Feb 2001,
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5210
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Once classified as endangered, the brown pelican is staging a comeback. At one time the only known nesting flock in the 1970s was on Ocracoke. Kowite discusses reasons why the pelican became endangered and how it survived to thrive in North Carolina.
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Mike and Ali Lubbock founded the Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Center in Scotland Neck in Halifax County in 1989. Covering about nine acres, the center boasts the largest collection of waterfowl in the world and is a conservation and research orientated center for birds, especially rare and endangered waterfowl. Sylvan Heights contains around 3,000 birds and 170 species, including 30 species that cannot be seen in any other collection or zoo in North America.
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9074
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In Part 4 of endangered wildlife, reptiles are categorized. The status of these species is based on federal definitions for endangered, rare, undetermined, and peripheral species. Information includes the species; its range in North Carolina; preferred habitat; general comments about it; and status.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 38 Issue 3, Mar 1974,
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9422
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The authors describe the brown pelican and why the bird is becoming an endangered species in the face of new environmental hazards brought on by modern man.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 40 Issue 7, July 1976,
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9927
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There never were many bog turtles in North Carolina, and real estate development, habitat destruction, and the illegal pet trade have seriously reduced the bog turtle population that has survived.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 53 Issue 10, Oct 1989,
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15931
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Increasingly in the United States, the preservation of endangered species and biological diversity conflicts with the mounting pressures of urban growth and development. This article presents several arguments on the importance of species protection.
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