Pathways To Nature Conservation Fund - Necedah National Wildlife Refuge

$25,000 plus $25,000 in local matching funds.

Seventeen young Whooping Cranes are preparing for fall migration by learning to fly following an ultra light aircraft at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge. For details, access Operation Migration or the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership.

Whooping Crane
reintroduction and education project
This project supports establishing an eastern population of Whooping Cranes and increasing awareness of the endangered Whooping Crane. The project helps fund the enclosures where the Whooping Cranes live during the reintroduction program. The grant money provides educational materials, such as educational trunks, to help teach schoolchildren about the cranes and helps pay for a viewing blind that allows people to remain out of sight while watching the young cranes learn to fly.

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To learn more about the Whooping Crane reintroduction project, access http://midwest.fws.gov/whoopingcrane/ or http://www.savingcranes.org/ .