Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge

Cepaea nemoralis, more common known as grove snail is one of the most abundant specie of land snail. It is native from west and north to central Europe but has later been introduced to North America and New Zealand (Cain & Sheppard 1953). Grove snails are highly adaptable to a various type of habitats, they can be found in open wood, shrubs, highlands, various types of forest and even urban conditions like roadsides. They were also located at 1800 meters altitude on the Pyrenees (Schultes n.d.).

Earth is always constantly changing and developing, especially the organisms that habitat on Earth. As a result, Earth is very biodiverse and has many different types of ecosystem. For instance, Earth has eight ecosystems (Tropical forest, Savanna, Desert, Chaparral, Temperate Grassland, Temperate Deciduous forest, Coniferous forest, and Tundra) and seven biomes (Wetland, Lakes, River and Streams, Intertidal zones, Oceanic pelagic biome, Coral reefs, Benthos). In these many different areas on Earth, there are many organisms, life, and valued nature. For example, Santa Cruz’s ocean are immensely important and valuable to the Cruz community because of its beautiful cinematic views and sea animals. Therefore, there are environmental justice

Near the small town of San Antonio, NM is a spectacular display of one of nature's finest balanced beauty and wilderness paradise, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, situated on the northern edge of the Chihuahuan desert and straddling the Rio Grande. Fitting is the name Bosque del Apache, meaning "woods of the Apache," a reminder of the Apache peoples of long ago who lived along the Rio Grande. The 57,331-acre refuge was established in 1939 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an effort aimed to preserve the area as a wildlife habitat. The nucleus of the refuge is 7,000 acres of flood-plain, an extensive area of wetlands and farmlands. Arid foothills and towering mesas ascend to the Chupadera Mountains

My summer internship takes place at Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in Boynton Beach, Florida. This organization focuses on conservation and resource management, including fire, invasive species, and water management, and protecting indigenous species in response to increased urbanization around the refuge. As a summer intern at the refuge, I will be a member of the biology team. As such, I will primarily be conducting invasive species surveys and helping with the removal of Burmese pythons, Nile monitor lizards, and Cuban tree frogs, as well as some plant species. I will also collect water samples to monitor the quality of the water. Though I will work mainly with the biology team, I will be educated on all aspects

Would you like to have the US drill near your community? The United States is planning to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) located in Alaska. Being a US citizen I believe we should not drill for oil in Alaska because it would affect the economy, the environment, and the Alaskans. Drilling for oil in ANWR can be beneficial in some ways, but this is why it is unreliable.

Mason Neck Park and Mason Neck Wildlife Refuge, officially known as Mason Neck State Park and Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck respectively, are home to a multitude of species, such as the bald eagle, the Virginia pine tree, and the white-tailed deer (“Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck,” 2016; “Mason Neck State Park,” 2016). Critical to the conservation of endangered species, Mason Neck Wildlife Refuge, run by the National Wildlife Refuge System, a part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, provides a safe habitat for the various organisms (“Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck,” 2016). On the other hand, the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, the governmental agency responsible for Mason Neck Park, keeps human’s recreational needs in mind and provides activities such as canoeing and fishing (“Mason Neck State Park,” 2016). The human interference present within the Mason Neck Park may impact the local ecosystem (“Mason Neck State Park,” 2016). Although there are activities available in Mason Neck Wildlife Refuge, they are “wildlife-oriented recreational developments” meaning the well being of organisms living in the Refuge will be the first priority (“Elizabeth Hartwell Mason

First, this mainly due to the fact that O’ahu tree snails have unique colorful shells, and as a result, many people are removing these snails and using them for scientific studies or cases (Kay and Hadfield, 1972). In other words, the snails are being taken away from their natural habitat and kept in laboratories for scientific studies. However, most humans are not aware that they are disturbing their environment and having a negative impact on the overall population of Achatinella mustelina. Moreover, many shell collectors and nature enthusiast in the late 1800s and early 1900s collected these Achatinella mustelina because of their colorful, flamboyant and patterned shells which in return negatively impacted the number of these specimen (Hadfield 1986, Hadfield et al. 1993). For this, shell collectors and nature fanatics have to be aware and appreciative of the impact and effect that wildlife animals have on the environment as well as the ecosystem as a whole. In other words, when human forces disturb a species habitat or environment, they are negatively impacting the ecosystem thus increasing the extinction rate of endangered

Sequim is a tiny City that’s tucked away, deep in the heart of Washington State in the United States. Sitting in Clallam County, it is perched right next to the Dungeness River, a 28 mile/ 45 Km long river. Sequim is also nestled right at the base of the majestic Olympic Mountains. Forming a breathtaking backdrop to the city, the mountain range creates a spectacular scenery, noticeable from Sequim. And it is one reason why visitors troop here. Starved of rain giving winds by the mountain, the city enjoys sunny weather almost throughout the year with very little rainfall per year. Exciting places to visit are the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge, a fascinating park that offers camping activities. Also, you can visit the Sequim Bay State Park

The North Carolina Wildlife Habitat Foundation does their job properly yes or no? Let 's read to find out. First let 's start off with a little history of the North Carolina Wildlife Habitat Foundation.A group of enthusiastic volunteers interested in wildlife conservation. Nc WildLife. "Welcome!" North Carolina Wildlife Habitat Foundation. Members of Ncwf, 1 Jan. 2016. Web. 02 Dec. 2016.Met at what was the greensboro public library which is now apart of Elon University NC WildLife "Welcome!" North Carolina Wildlife Habitat Foundation. Members of Ncwf, 1 Jan. 2016. Web. 02 Dec. 2016.To discuss the benfit of starting a wildlife program "Welcome!" North Carolina Wildlife Habitat Foundation. Members of Ncwf, 1 Jan. 2016. Web. 02.They agreed to open a account for the foundation which started off with just one hundred and two dollars after the first week that amount rose a good bit after membership fees in the account was three thousand dollars."Welcome!" North Carolina Wildlife Habitat Foundation. Members of Ncwf, 1 Jan. 2016. Web. 02.After this they began to start to start with there first money raising projects."Welcome!" North Carolina Wildlife Habitat Foundation. Members of Ncwf, 1 Jan. 2016. Web. 02.Some of their more recent projects include more on the focus of small animal or animals who have trouble in the wild.Holt, Craig. "NCWF Offers Raver Prints to Benefit N.C. Quail Habitat Fund." NWCF Offers

Seville is the capital of Andalusia and one of the largest cities in the south of Spain. With a population of around 1.5 million and too many individual attractions to name, it can be considered the entertainment, heritage, and academic hub of the south. It contains three UNESCO world heritage sites, the Alcázar Palace, the General Archive of the Indies, and Seville Cathedral. If you're coming to Seville, you should be able to find the car hire you need easily from Enterprise-Rent-A-Car. Enterprise operates three different branches within the city and one at the nearby Aeropuerto de Sevilla. We are open for business at Sevilla Ave. Train Station in the core of Seville, at East Seville (off of the A92 approaching the city westbound), and in

If you leave your car behind and join a ranger-led hike in Southwest Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park, you'll find yourself at a spot where the scrubby pinyon-juniper forest drops off. It falls into a sandstone chasm. It reveals a maze of 800-year-old stone dwellings. They are wedged beneath an overhang in the canyon wall. They're so well preserved that it's easy to imagine you've stepped back in time. And that nothing has changed in this high desert landscape since the Ancestral Puebloans built these chambers. They were built in the 12th century.

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The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, New Vernon, NJ, has different types of species and habitats. We started the observation from the shorter plants. First of all, the tour lady introduced poison ivy plants to us. She mentioned that if you see a hair rope plant, there is high probability that it could be a poison ivy. There were less short plants farther away from the water. There could be several reasons that the shorter plants are near or/and above the water. First, watery soil can only support shorter and less heavy plants, because near water the soil is too soft. Second, New Jersey has many deer and the deers’ predators are removed from the area because they cannot coexist with humans. Shorter plants are usually eaten by deer. The

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According to their hypothesis, the predicted models of refuge forests should also predict centers of endemism, as well as high degrees of genetic diversity with the individual taxa. However, the data concerning species distribution was severely limited, meaning that they could only evaluate five taxa. The authors used the distribution of mitochondrial DNA as a representation of biodiversity within taxa. Three out of five taxa showed higher biodiversity within the modelled refuge forest: a related complex of lizards the three-toed sloth, and the brown four-eyed opossum. However, the other two, the slender-mouse opossum and the Atlantic rat, both showed higher genetic diversity in the southern region, which was not included in the predicted refuge forest and would therefore not have remained in a tropical forest. Additionally, the molecular data the sloth and lizard seems to show trends of population expansion in regions outside of the refuge forest. Furthermore, the authors refer to a recently discovered genus of lizard within one of their predicted refuges as additional evidence of the high rates of the endemic species found in the Atlantic forest (Q4). The authors present all this together as evidence of a correlation between the location of the past refuge forests they predicted