Saving Our National Parks
A recently released report, Climate Change and National Park Wildlife A Survival Guide for a Warming World, by Washington-based advocacy group National Parks Conservation Association highlights concerns relating to climate change - from the bleaching of coral reefs in Florida to the disappearance of high-altitude ponds that nurture yellow-legged frogs in California - in the nation’s national parks.
The report singles out air and water pollution, pesticides, logging, mining, and other processes detrimental to the park‘s landscape and wildlife and calls on decisive action by the federal government to …
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