Audubon Society scientists have estimated that, if climate warming continues unabated, more than 60% of bird species in North America will vanish by the end of the 21st Century
, Gunnison sage grouse, and the greater prairie chicken — looks increasingly precarious.
Federal wildlife officials on Nov. 17 designated the nation’s surviving lesser prairie chickens officially “endangered” across Texas and New Mexico and “threatened” in Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas – the five states where these chickens exist. For more than two decades, wildlife advocates have been warning of imminent extinction.
A federal endangered species listing requires tougher restrictions, potentially complicating energy pipelines, roads and other development that could hurt the chickens and the native prairie habitat needed to recover the species. “We think we’ve created a good habitat for them that they like – sand sagebrush grasslands. That’s the kind of forage they like where they lived. But, for some reason – who knows why? – they are not taking hold and growing their population,” Brewer said.“Over the last couple of years, the drought has taken a toll on the kind of cover and forage that they need,” she said. Predators include coyotes and skunks.officials declined to discuss their project and plans for the future.
CPW officials anticipate that federal protection for the lesser prairie chicken, which starts in January, will improve conservation and “hopefully reduce future fragmentation of lesser prairie chicken habitats,” she said.
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