The Aransas National Wildlife Refuge is at risk of DOGE budget cuts. A local group of volunteers is stepping up to advocate ...

In 1870, there were thought to be between 500 and 1,400 whooping cranes living in the wild. But as people drained the birds’ wetland habitat for agriculture and hunted them for their feathers ...

A student-led initiative hosted origami workshops, scavenger hunts for paper cranes and conservation seminars to promote ...

A mainstay of the Rockport-Port Aransas region since 1937, the refuge provides a habitat ... of the annual Whooping Crane Festival in Port Aransas, and the University of Texas Marine Science ...

“Conversion of the species’ prairie and wetland habitat to ... on the central Texas coast with the hopes that it would join the small migratory flock of whooping cranes there.” ...

The Trump extinction proposal: Whooping cranes cannot survive without safe places to stop along their migration, including those who travel some 2,500 miles each year between coastal Texas and ...

PORT O’CONNOR Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD ... waterfowl and occasional wintering Whooping Cranes. Dolphins and sea turtles may be observed in Matagorda Bay and Powderhorn Lake ...

The passage of the ESA provided critical help by protecting the bird’s habitat ... whooping crane population, in Florida) to supplement the cranes’ historic route from Canada to Texas ...