[New post] Research and Rescue: Saving Species from Ourselves

Ashley Braun posted: "Ashley Braun | Longreads | October 2019 | 23 minutes (4,191 words)   On a crisp December afternoon, I convince my sister's family to visit an unusual exhibit in the Cincinnati Zoo. Countless holiday lights glow in the surrounding trees as we walk" New post on Longreads Research and Rescue: Saving Species from Ourselves by Ashley Braun Ashley Braun | Longreads | October 2019 | 23 minutes (4,191 words)   On a crisp December afternoon, I convince my sister's family to visit an unusual exhibit in the Cincinnati Zoo. Countless holiday lights glow in the surrounding trees as we walk toward a statue roughly the size of a chicken. The sculpture is of a pigeon, and we stand admiring how it gracefully arcs its smooth, bronze neck toward the sky while bending down its saw-toothed tail. This memory of a bird recalls Martha, the very last passenger pigeon on earth, who died at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden in 1914. Most zoo-goers breeze past the sculpture, as if this pigeon were of no more interest than the kind that pecks through garbage. After we approach, my nieces, ages 5 and 11, flank the statue, downhill from a quiet Japanese-style pagoda, the aviary where Martha had spent her final years. Read more of this post Ashley Braun | October 22, 2019 at 7:00 am | Tags: Ashley Braun, bird conservation, conservation, endangered species, extinction, Genetic Sequencing, genetics, mass extinction, wildlife conservation | Categories: Editor's Pick, Featured, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story, Technology | URL: https://wp.me/p4KhvY-ykn Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Longreads. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://longreads.com/2019/10/22/saving-endangered-species-preservation-conservation-science/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com