Our Mission: Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities. We focus our programs on what scientists consider two of the most serious environmental threats to the planet: the accelerating rate of extinction of species and the associated loss of biological diversity, and habitat alteration and destruction. Long known for our leadership on endangered species issues, Defenders of Wildlife also advocates new approaches to wildlife conservation that will help keep species from becoming endangered. Our programs encourage protection of entire ecosystems and interconnected habitats while protecting predators that serve as indicator species for ecosystem health.
Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership Non-profit organizations, individuals and government agencies joining forces to bring a migratory flock of whooping cranes back to eastern North America
The International Crane Foundation (ICF) commits to a future where all crane species are secure - a future where people cooperate to protect and restore wild populations and their ecosystems. These efforts sustain the places where cranes live, to the benefit of countless other species.
Now you can donate online through CanadaHelps.org Canada Helps accepts and processes credit card donations and forwards these to Operation Migration, without keeping a fee.
Please help us to get the 2006 generation of endangered Whooping Cranes to Florida! 
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Seven states, 1250-miles, and an unknown number of migration days lie between the 2006 Whooping crane chicks' fledging ground at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin, and their winter habitat at Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge on Florida's central west coast.
How can you help? Become a MileMaker sponsor! By sponsoring a mile(s), or a half, or quarter mile of the 2006 ultralight-led migration, you, too, become part of what has been described as "The greatest species reintroduction in the history of the world!"
Our partner, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Maryland. Photo by USGS, Kathleen O'Malley.
Last update: June 18, 2006
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