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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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Texas Alliance for America's Fish & Wildlife
- Oct 23, 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 Alliance for America's Fish & Wildlife
- Sep 23, 2019
- 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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Texas Alliance for America's Fish & Wildlife
- Sep 9, 2019
- 2 min
Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, H.R.3742, 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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