Visualizing Environmental Science

Steve Nesbitt, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

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a. Captive Breeding.

Lucky (right) is the first whooping crane

born to parents raised in captivity and then

released. In late 2011 the captive population

totaled 162 cranes, and the total number of

wild cranes was 437.

b. Reforestation in Brazil.

These seedlings are to be used in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest

Restoration Project, an initiative linking governments,

environmental organizations, researchers, landowners,

and private companies. The Nature Conservancy facilitates

the project, whose goal is to form a 60-km (37-mi) corridor

of tropical forest linking two national parks in the Brazilian

state of Bahia. The Atlantic Forest is widely recognized as

one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots.

c. Seeds from a Seed Bank.

Shown are seeds to be stored at the Wakehurst

Place Seed Bank in Sussex, England. Wakehurst

is home to the Millennium Seed Bank

Partnership, which currently banks 10 percent of

Earth’s wild plant species and hopes to store 25

percent by 2020.

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