Monday, June 29, 2009

Coast-to-coast Conservation Thanks to Delta Waterfowl


Electronically tracking individual skunks in California to learn how they hunt ducklings in their nests – to studying whether trapping predators such as skunks has an impact on brood survival in North Dakota – to understanding why the number of duck hunters is declining in the Central Flyway – to figuring out how to implement a revolutionary waterfowl habitat program currently being demonstrated in Ontario.

That’s the range – both in terms of geography and topics – of the student research projects currently underway across the North American continent thanks to Delta Waterfowl.

Delta’s research program was launched in the 1930s and counts among its founders Aldo Leopold, the father of wildlife management. Since then, Delta has supported the work of hundreds of students as they conduct research that is crucial to waterfowl and waterfowl hunters in every corner of the continent. Many of these students go on to become some of the world’s foremost waterfowl conservation experts.

Find out more here about how Delta’s support for these efforts is helping protect waterfowl populations now and far into the future.

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