Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Removed from Endangered List
The Red-cockaded Woodpecker has recovered enough to be upgraded from an Endangered Species to a Threatened one, according to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. At one point in the 1970's the woodpeckers population had decreased to 1470 clusters or group of nests. Currently there are an estimated 7800 clusters. These woodpeckers only nest in mature long-leaf pine forests but logging has reduced these forests that once stretched from New Jersey to east Texas so that today only about 3% of the original habitat remains. The woodpecker was one of the first species to be designated as "endangered" under the Endangered Species Act.
_-- New York Times, October 29, 2024
The Red-cockaded Woodpecker has recovered enough to be upgraded from an Endangered Species to a Threatened one, according to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. At one point in the 1970's the woodpeckers population had decreased to 1470 clusters or group of nests. Currently there are an estimated 7800 clusters. These woodpeckers only nest in mature long-leaf pine forests but logging has reduced these forests that once stretched from New Jersey to east Texas so that today only about 3% of the original habitat remains. The woodpecker was one of the first species to be designated as "endangered" under the Endangered Species Act.
_-- New York Times, October 29, 2024
