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"At the top of America’s Amazon, nearly 8,000 acres of Alabama’s most sensitive
and ecologically important land is being preserved forever, thanks to a
multi-million dollar collaboration involving The Nature Conservancy in Alabama,
Patagonia, and an undisclosed donor.
The Nature Conservancy in Alabama says it has closed a $15 million+ deal to buy
7,990 acres in Clarke County at the head of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, often
called America’s Amazon for its remarkable biodiversity and wildlife.
“This is one of the most important conservation victories that we’ve ever been
a part of,” Mitch Reid, state director for The Nature Conservancy in Alabama,
told AL.com. “It’s protected a vitally important complex of land, almost 8,000
acres, critically important to the health of the Mobile Delta and then, by
extension, Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.”
The tract being purchased is called the Land Between the Rivers, the area
surrounding where the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers flow side by side and then
merge to join the rest of the Delta. The area consists of numerous streams,
swamps, and ox-bow lakes that are host to a wide range of species of fish,
birds, reptiles and amphibians. Reid said the number of species living in those
wetlands make it one of the most biodiverse places on Earth."
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
