The Alaska Wilderness League has posted a short but very powerful video that explains why it’s so important to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from energy development — especially after it’s now been revealed that oil industry spill plans are essentially worthless.
I urge you to click the full-screen setting on the player below so [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just posted a video about the problem of sea level rise at Bulls Island, which is a barrier island at Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina. Over the past several years, staff at Bulls Island have seen the beach disappear before their eyes at an alarming rate, [...]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service senior biologist James Harris provides an interesting look at the types of oil spill booms being deployed to help reduce the impact of the BP oil spill on Gulf Coast national wildlife refuges.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has posted an interesting video that looks at the impact of climate change on the National Wildlife Refuge System and what biologists and refuge managers are doing to prepare for the challenges of a changing environment.

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National Wildlife Refuge System, climate change, US Fish and Wildlife Service

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of perhaps the most famous refuge in the National Wildlife Refuge System — the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And for all those in the media and on the Internet who keep getting the name wrong after all these decades: It’s not Alaska National Wildlife Refuge — [...]

WGCU Public Media has posted an entertaining video about Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge in Florida. In the video, you can see the habitat and wildlife diversity that the refuge offers, and also meet a member of the staff and two volunteers who talk about the importance of protecting the refuge.

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national wildlife refuge, Florida Panther [...]

Mother Nature Network offers a brief interview with Noreen Clough, who is the former Southeast Regional Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and former president of the Blue Goose Alliance. Noreen discusses the interesting yet controversial topic of forming a National Wildlife Refuge “Service.”

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National Wildlife Refuge System, Blue Goose Alliance

St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge is in Franklin County, Florida, and is an undeveloped barrier island just offshore from the mouth of the Apalachicola River in the Gulf of Mexico. The island is a haven for endangered and threatened species, including bald eagles, sea turtles, indigo snakes, gopher tortoises, and wood storks. In addition, the [...]

In honor of the upcoming fall bird migration that will be witnessed at many wildlife refuges around the country, our featured video today includes beautiful migration scenes (featuring Canada geese, snow geese, and sandhill cranes) from Arizona’s Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, which is located in the floodplain of the lower Colorado River and surrounded by [...]

In this entry of Video Monday, we offer a wonderful overview of Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, which is just north of Boston, Massachusetts. The refuge occupies in part, the southern three-fourths of Plum Island, an 8-mile barrier island, and offers excellent wildlife-oriented recreational and educational opportunities, as well as visitor facilities and programs. The [...]

In past blog entries (April 1, 2009 and June 29, 2008), Refuge Watch has reported on the impact of the border wall that is being built along the Unites States-Mexico border, with special emphasis on its impact at Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Texas.
In the video below, Krista Schlyer — who is [...]

In today’s featured video, the conservation staff at Ducks Unlimited discuss the impact of climate change on waterfowl protection. Also in the video, the DU staff discuss how they are working on methods of dealing with changing sea levels and how they’re reaching out to the agricultural community to find ways to compensate for habitat [...]