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Conservation
Research Center featured on "60 Minutes"
On January 10, 2010, television newsmagazine 60 Minutes featured
Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species with Lesley Stahl.
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Audubon Nature Institute mission's includes enhancing the care and survival of wildlife through research and conservation. The full range of Audubon conservation projects holds great promise for the wildlife of tomorrow. Every year brings new opportunities—and new advances in technology that enable us to move from opportunity to reality as we work to ensure a future world as enriched by wildlife diversity as the one we enjoy today.
Hope for the survival of a vanishing species rises with each birth of that animal in captivity. And hope heightens whenever the captive-born creature is released into the wild. Audubon Nature Institute celebrates success on both fronts.
Audubon Zoo, in collaboration with several other conservation organizations, tracked captive-bred Louisiana pine snakes tagged with radios and released on land owned by International Paper. This project helped to determine population densities of this rare reptile.
