Ferrets and Burrowing Owls Visit Classrooms on Endangered Species Day
We are a little slow posting these photos but they are worth the wait . . . kids in Denver and Boulder classrooms learning about black-footed ferrets up close and personal. Kids in a Castle Rock classroom had the same opportunity to meet a burrowing owl (though we don't have any photos of that). Lots of the Castle rock kids had just read or seen Hoot (the Carl Hiaasen book and now movie), so the burrowing owl had special significance. The irony of the Bureau of Land Management leasing critical black-footed ferret habitat on the very same day – May 11 – that the U.S. Senate had designated as Endangered Species Day is almost too tragic to point out.
But the kids had a great time and learned a lot.
Center for Native Ecosystems
Our mission, simply put, is to save endangered species across Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. We play an "urgent care" role for the imperiled plants and wildlife most at risk of extinction, buying some time to figure out the long term solutions. We also work hard to recover these species, restoring them and their habitats to health. And we blog because doing so gives us a great way of keeping folks a little more plugged in to what's happening in the world of endangered species advocacy, offering some insight into what we do and how we do it, and fostering conversation among our supporters, our staff, and others.
