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How Farmers Can Help Rescue Water-Loving Birds
- Waterfowl and long-legged shorebird populations, including sandpipers, have declined by about 20 percent since 2014 across North America and beyond.
- This decline results from habitat loss due to climate-driven wetland degradation, agricultural land changes, and reduced federal conservation funding under the Trump administration.
- Conservationists, nonprofits, government agencies, and farmers are increasing collaborative efforts, such as maintaining crawfish-and-rice farms that mimic wetlands and training ranchers on better grazing practices.
- In 2024, one organization conserved 1 million acres for waterfowl, and biologists report seeing up to 50 species on biodiverse rice farms, with Ducks Unlimited aiming to keep rice farmers farming rice.
- These coordinated efforts face urgency due to ongoing climate change, habitat threats, and funding cuts, emphasizing that farmer cooperation is essential to sustain wetland-dependent bird species.
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How farmers can help rescue water-loving birds James Gentz has seen birds aplenty on his East Texas rice-and-crawfish farm: snow geese and pintails, spoonbills and teal. The whooping crane couple, though, he found “magnificent.” These endangered, long-necked behemoths arrived in 2021 and set to building a nest amid his flooded fields. “I just loved to see them,” Gentz says. Not every farmer is thrilled to host birds. Some worry about the spread …
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