News Release
Eagle Nature Foundation, Ltd.
300 East Hickory Street, Apple River, IL 61001
Phone: 815-594-2306 Fax: 815-594-2305 Web Site: eaglenature.com
e-mail: eaglenature.tni@juno.com Tax Exempt No. 36-4015400
| For Immediate Release | March 2, 2018 |
ENF Announces 50/50 Raffle To Help the Bald Eagle
Apple River) The Eagle Nature Foundation has just completed its 2018 Midwinter Bald Eagle Count, which revealed that the Bald Eagle population, especially its immature members, is still declining and is presently back to where it was during the count in 1964. The US Army Corps of Engineers has just completed its weekly surveys of 12 dams on the Mississippi River, from Dubuque, IA down to Saverton, MO and recorded a drop in the percentage of immatures from 22% last year to 18% this year. The Ferry Bluff Eagle Council has just completed its bi-weekly bald eagle roosting counts on the Wisconsin River with this year’s results recording the 4th year in a row of overall bald eagle numbers being low.
The bald eagle population is facing a challenge. For some reason the immatures do not seem to be surviving to adulthood. We need to discover what that reason is, for the bald eagle is our National Symbol, and we don’t want to lose it. The bald eagle being at the top of the food chain, just like humans, is subject to all of the pollutions that build up in the food chain below. If some pollution is affecting the bald eagles, then it may also be affecting humans. We need to find out if it is a pollutant like glyphosate, the chemical in Roundup, or a disease like West Nile Virus, that is affecting the bald eagles.
The first need ENF has is to find the money necessary to determine why none of the counts reflect, or reveal, a “robust bald eagle population that has been raising more young each year for the past 25 years” as the Fish & Wildlife claims. Donations of any size and from every person are needed to find this needed money. The future of our National Symbol is at stake!
ENF is taking the first step in this journey by sponsoring a 50/50 raffle at $2 a ticket. This raffle is open to all members of the public. The drawing for the raffle will be held during ENF’s Annual Meeting in Apple River on April 7. To enter the raffle just send your check for the number of tickets you want to purchase, at $2 a ticket, to ENF, 300 East Hickory Street, Apple River, IL 61001
For more information contact: Terrence N. Ingram, Exec. Director, Eagle Nature Foundation, 300 East Hickory St., Apple River, IL 61001 Phone 815-594-2306