Scavengers: Vital for Health, Facing Extinction
Scavengers, crucial for sanitation and disease control, face threats. Larger species decline endangers human health, while smaller scavengers thrive. 36% are threatened.
American burying beetles are making a comeback in Nebraska
In partnership with Nebraska Game and Parks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, Pheasants Forever and others, landowners have burned more than a third of this vast landscape since 2002, reducing tree cover in some places back to historic levels of less than 10 percent.