Posts Tagged ‘2018’
Monday, November 12th, 2018
by Michael Sol Warren, NJ.com
Photo: NJ.com
The world’s wildlife is dying off.
That’s the main takeaway from a new report released earlier this week. The 2018 edition of the Living Planet Report, published by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London, found that the population size of some of the world’s vertebrate species had shrunk by 60 percent between 1970 and 2014.
Though tropical species have suffered the most, according to the report, the rash of wildlife decline hits home in the Garden State.
“It mirrors what we see in New Jersey,” said David Wheeler, the executive director of the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey.
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Tags: 2018, endangered species, wildlife
Posted in Uncategorized, Wildlife Protection | Comments Off on Star Ledger: Earth’s wildlife is disappearing – and NJ is at risk for the same
Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
by Bridget Macdonald
Senior biologist for the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey Todd Pover releases a piping plover, a species he has helped monitor for 25 years. (Jim Verhagen)
On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy plowed ashore near Atlantic City, N.J., with sustained winds of 75 miles per hour. In its wake, state officials declared it the most destructive natural disaster in the history of New Jersey. It changed communities dramatically.
Natural features of the coastline underwent significant changes too, but in some cases, those changes presented new conservation opportunities that could protect people and wildlife in the face of future storms.
“We were able to identify places where piping plover habitat had been enhanced by the storm,” explained Todd Pover, a senior biologist for the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey who has been involved in monitoring the federally threatened shorebird for 25 years. Places like Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, where the storm erased the dunes in a three-quarter mile stretch of beach, creating an open expanse from ocean to bay.
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Tags: 2018, beach nesting bird, Conserve Wildlife Foundation, piping plover, Shorebirds, wildlife
Posted in Beach Nesting Birds, Marine, Shorebirds, Wildlife News | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
…thanks to help from some friends.
By: Larissa Smith, CWF Biologist
On August 20th, 2018 a resident of Monmouth Beach reported a young eagle that had been perching in the neighborhood and was possibly injured. NJ Eagle Project Volunteer Randy Lubischer, was able to respond and check out the situation. The bird was a hatch year eagle, which means it fledged during this nesting season. The eagle was feeding on a swan carcass and though Randy could get fairly close, the bird was able to fly a short distance and appeared to have an injury to its left leg. The eagle had been seen feeding on the swan carcass for the past few days, so it was assumed that its injury was keeping it from hunting and the bird would only get weaker over time.
Injured eagle before capture@ R. Lubischer
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Tags: 2018, bald eagle, Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey, Endangered and Nongame Species Program, New Jersey, raptor, Raptor Trust, volunteer, wildlife
Posted in Eagles, Raptors, Volunteer Programs, Wildlife Protection | 7 Comments »
Friday, October 5th, 2018
by Stephanie Feigin, CWF Wildlife Ecologist
Volunteer Nicole Dion ready to conduct mobile acoustic survey
Across the country bat populations continue to decline due to the threat of White Nose Syndrome. Last year, to collect important population data to monitor population trends of New Jersey’s bat species, Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey (CWF), in partnership with Endangered and Nongame Species Program (ENSP), re-launched their Statewide Mobile Acoustic Surveys with new equipment and protocol. With all the kinks of a revamped project worked out, CWF entered their second year of this project. (more…)
Tags: 2018, bats, Conserve Wildlife Foundation, Endangered and Nongame Species Program, new jersey wildlife, volunteer, wildlife
Posted in Bats, Uncategorized, Volunteer Programs | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, September 26th, 2018
The threats are real and these photos should alarm you!
by Ben Wurst, Habitat Program Manager
U.S. Coast Guard assists NJ Fish & Wildlife with recovering an entangled osprey on a channel marker in Cape May Harbor, Summer 2018. photo by Kathy Clark/ENSP
As I work to finalize data from this summer’s osprey surveys, I wanted to look back and highlight an important observation: more plastic is being found and recovered from active osprey nests. I guess it’s no surprise when you hear that “18 billion pounds of plastic waste flows into the oceans every year from coastal regions.” (more…)
Tags: 2018, beach, bird, debris, litter, marine, New Jersey, NJ, osprey, photo from the field, plastic, pollution, raptor, saltmarsh, threat, Threatened species, wildlife, WildlifeNJ
Posted in Birds, Get Involved, osprey, Raptors, Wildlife Protection | 9 Comments »
