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Recovery Program Working for Pronghorn
May 14, 2007 — By Arthur H. Rotstein, Associated Press
CABEZA PRIETA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Ariz. -- Federal wildlife biologist Mike Coffeen is ecstatic these days. His efforts to save North America's fastest mammal -- the endangered Sonoran pronghorn -- are succeeding beyond expectations.
Five years after drought whittled the deer-like animal's population to a handful, pushing it to the brink of extinction, its numbers are back above 100.
Biologists are especially encouraged by the 18 fawns born within the past three months in a square-mile captive breeding enclosure within this sprawling national refuge in southern Arizona -- what Coffeen calls "our disaster ace in the hole."
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12756
May 14, 2007 — By Arthur H. Rotstein, Associated Press
CABEZA PRIETA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Ariz. -- Federal wildlife biologist Mike Coffeen is ecstatic these days. His efforts to save North America's fastest mammal -- the endangered Sonoran pronghorn -- are succeeding beyond expectations.
Five years after drought whittled the deer-like animal's population to a handful, pushing it to the brink of extinction, its numbers are back above 100.
Biologists are especially encouraged by the 18 fawns born within the past three months in a square-mile captive breeding enclosure within this sprawling national refuge in southern Arizona -- what Coffeen calls "our disaster ace in the hole."
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12756
