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What’s the Buzz: Decline of Bees, Pollinators is Bad News for Ecology and Agriculture

Texas Alliance for America's Fish & Wildlife

Jun 19, 2022
2 min

What’s the Buzz: Decline of Bees, Pollinators is Bad News for Ecology and Agriculture

Yet Recovering America's Wildlife Act Can Help Photo: Robert Jackson, Bee on Bluebonnet Consider the humble bumblebee. Honeybees may be one of the best-known insects in our lives, yet many people may be surprised and saddened to hear that a recent study found that 11 of 21 North American bumblebee species have seen population declines of 50 percent or greater. It’s one more example of the more than 1,300 species of concern in Texas that could get much-needed help from the pro

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Watch for Whooping Cranes! North America’s Rarest Bird Depends on Texas.

Texas Alliance for America's Fish & Wildlife

Dec 9, 2021
3 min

Watch for Whooping Cranes! North America’s Rarest Bird Depends on Texas.

· Endangered whooping cranes are migrating from Canada to Texas for the winter. · Approximately 500 whooping cranes remain in the wild. · Birders from around the world travel to the Texas coast every winter for a chance to see this rare bird and hundreds of other winter migrants. · The bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act would bring the resources needed to save this species, along with other at-risk fish and wildlife. · The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act would als

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Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, H.R.2773, Would Boost Texas Bat Conservation, Eco-tourism

Texas Alliance for America's Fish & Wildlife

Oct 26, 2021
2 min

Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, H.R.2773, Would Boost Texas Bat Conservation, Eco-tourism

© Thomas Kunz, Boston University Texas happens to be the battiest state in the USA, home to 32 of the nation’s 47 bat species. In a state where everything’s said to be bigger, not only do we have the most kinds of bats, we also boast the world’s largest known bat colony, Bracken Cave Preserve near San Antonio, and the planet’s largest urban bat colony, Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin. Visitors from around the world flock to Texas to see the winged mammals at close to a dozen

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Two Texas Critters Are Now Extinct. Don’t Let the Horned Lizard Be Next.

Texas Alliance for America's Fish & Wildlife

Oct 19, 2021
2 min

Two Texas Critters Are Now Extinct. Don’t Let the Horned Lizard Be Next.

· 2 Texas species were recently declared extinct. · More than 1,300 species are at risk of disappearing from Texas, including the beloved ‘horny toad.’ · The bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act would bring the resources needed to save this species, along with other at-risk fish and wildlife. · The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act would also create thousands of jobs in Texas’ nature-based economy. In September, two Texas species were declared extinct by the

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Texas Alliance for America's Fish & Wildlife

Nov 17, 2020
2 min

Fall 2020 Newsletter

Bald cypress trees turning glorious shades of burnt orange, migrating Monarch butterflies, and wintering waterfowl -- these are a few Texas fall favorites. Along the coast, the first Whooping cranes have arrived at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. While we're feasting on pumpkin pie and green bean casserole, they'll be dining on wolfberries and blue crab. This time of year, it's hard not to reflect on how nature connects us all. The feathered harbingers of spring in the Nort

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How the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act Can Help our Diamonds in the Marsh

Texas Alliance for America's Fish & Wildlife

Nov 6, 2019
3 min

How the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act Can Help our Diamonds in the Marsh

Diamondback Terrapin in marsh habitat Texans love turtles. It’s hard to drive by a pond in summer and ignore the basking sliders with their back legs stuck out straight like they’re impersonating Superman. It’s even harder to take a hike out west and not become enamored by the slow plod of an ornate box tutle sharing the trail with you. Texas has about 30 species of shelled reptiles. Most of them occur in freshwater habitats, a few occur in the marine environment, but just on

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Saving the Texas State Reptile: A Poster Child for the Recovering America's Wildlife Act

Texas Alliance for America's Fish & Wildlife

Oct 22, 2019
2 min

Saving the Texas State Reptile: A Poster Child for the Recovering America's Wildlife Act

Is that a dinosaur? No, it’s a real-life, modern-day animal, the Texas horned lizard - our official state reptile. Once common across Texas, this much-loved lone star icon is now one of more 1,300 species of concern in our state. But there is good news for the little “horned toad.” Already, people are working to save it. But it will take the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act to bring the resources needed to save this critter and hundreds like it, plus help our woods and water

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Texas Conservation Alliance aims to prevent further animal extinctions - October 9, 2021