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Are we running out of room for whales and other marine animals off the coast of Massachusetts? See our plan to help.
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Nature plays a critical role in putting food on our tables — even our seafood. Find out how conservationists, fishermen, chefs and consumers are working together to find new ways of keeping our seafood sustainable and our oceans healthy.
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What really lives in Massachusetts’ biggest wetland? Read how five brave adventurers from The Nature Conservancy get to the heart of this question — then watch the video of their adventure.
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As fishermen in the Gulf of Maine are being forced to abandon their livelihoods, the Conservancy and several other nonprofits are working with fishermen on a novel plan: to purchase fishing permits and allow fishermen to use them to develop more sustainable practices.
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Join Angela Sirois, restoration specialist, as she leads a group deep into a rare Berkshires wetland. Surveying the maze of small streams, mounds of matted vegetation and twisted trees in the muddy valley, the task of finding a tiny bog turtle seems easier said than done.
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New England’s forests and wetlands — and the animals that call them home — are under assault by plants imported here from across the world. Make a difference in your own backyard: Plant native species, remove invasive plants and help restore your local ecosystem.
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Rare and uncommon wildlife species like leopard frogs, bald eagles and red-shouldered hawks are drawn to floodplain forests like this one, near the muddy banks of the meandering Ashuelot River. But floodplain forests are rare and getting rarer — a problem both for wildlife that make their homes here and the human communities that rely on these forests to soak up floodwaters.
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To human eyes, the scores of dams that divide New England’s great rivers aren’t particularly imposing. But to a shortnose sturgeon or Atlantic salmon, each dam represents a life or death challenge — a major roadblock to a natural cycle.
Nature pictures (top to bottom): Video © TNC; Video © TNC; Photo © Tony Gola/MassWildlife (Bog Turtle); Photo © Jenna Boig/TNC (Learning to garden); Photo © Eric Aldrich (Christian Marks takes measurements in a floodplain forest near the Ashuelot River in southwestern New Hampshire); Photo © Jerry A. Payne, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org (Shortnose sturgeon).
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