Sentences with phrase «first wildlife refuge»

Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge was the nation's first wildlife refuge, established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903.

Good news: An announcement of what's probably the first wildlife refuge in Iraq, the Assafia Wildlife Sanctuary in the Al - Hawizah Marsh.

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There's something like 80 million people in the U.S. according the recent surveys that are interested in birds in one way or another, you know, feed birds or watch birds, take their kids to a wildlife refuge and yet we keep hearing about more and more reports of declines in birds, you know, doubling of the extinction rates in birds globally in the last 50 years and right now we are on the verge of what I call the third renaissance of bird conservation, first being the Audubon movement at the turn of the century, the second being the Rachel Carson movement of the»60s and third we are on the verge of it right now.

The first group we visited was a wildlife refuge in the Manuel Antonio area.

Positioned on the southern Nicoya Peninsula in northwest Costa Rica, the country's first private wildlife refuge is absolutely teeming with all different kinds -LSB-...]

In 2015, TripAdvisor named Laughing Bird Caye first on its list of «Things to do in Placencia,» no easy fete for an area that took many years to find its true destiny as a wildlife refuge and relaxation spot for travelers.

Updated, 1:43 p.m. Tracking the latest developments around the continuing occupation of a federal wildlife refuge by anti-government zealots (who asked for snacks and received vegan jerky), I found myself musing this morning on what Teddy Roosevelt, who created the first version of this sanctuary in 1908, might have done.