A Race To Beat Extinction
5 March 2002 - 6:00am
National Geographic chronicles the tale of scientists trying to save the remaining 50 obscure Attwater prairie-chickens in Texas.
"The sky is falling! This is no false alarm. There are about 10 other male Attwaters and 20 females left in the wild. They inhabit two separate grassy patches in Texas totaling 12,400 acres (5,018 hectares), the remnants of six million acres (2,428,114 hectares) of coastal prairie that supported as many as a million Attwaters a century ago. The grouse were over hunted early and hit by habitat loss every year since."
Full Story:
Down To A Handful
Source:
National Geographic, March 4, 2002
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