All the creatures in the reel, save for the White-tailed Deer, have at one point in their life story, been endangered, threatened, or are in decline. The Brown Pelican, Sea Otter, and American Bald Eagle are conservation success stories. They were saved by citizens and government agencies working together to bring them back from the brink of extinction or extirpation. But some creatures, like the Northern Yellow Warbler and Tree Swallow, are experiencing a slow steady decline. And some, like the magnificent Monarch Butterfly migration, will end during our lifetime.
“Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” by Marvin Gaye. Filmed in Essex County, Massachusetts and Santa Barbara County, California.
Vote for migrantes
the human kind and the flying kind
Vote for baby birds, small birds, and Big birds
Vote for belly rubs
and for belly love
Vote for wild places
and wild kind
Vote not for the bomb throwers
but for rainbow bridge builders
Vote for clean, safe freshwater and seawater
Vote for the ones who will cherish all the children of the world.