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 | December 24, 2018 |
Help Save the Bald Eagle!
Apple River, IL) The bald eagle in the Midwest continues its downward decline and help is needed—the sooner the better. Thirty years ago more than 450 bald eagles could be seen in a single day before Christmas flying south over Eagle Valley Nature Preserve and Cassville, WI. Both this year and last year during a trip past Eagle Valley and Cassville, Mr. Ingram and his wife did not see a single migrating bald eagle in the area. We need to learn why the bald eagle population in the Midwest is either, not reproducing well, or why the immatures are not surviving. That is why Mr. Ingram wrote two books, “The Plight of the Bald Eagle” and “Silent Fall”; to raise a red flag and to alert the public to the present decline of the bald eagle population in the Midwest. We need to find the reason for this decline as soon as possible!
The Eagle Nature Foundation (ENF) has asked the US Fish & Wildlife Service to place the bald eagle back on the Endangered Species List, so that their employees would be able to monitor the bald eagles nesting in their own areas, and the Service has refused. Every American has a stake in the future of the bald eagle, and if the government is not going to study the bird, someone else has to do it.
As in the past, ENF is the first organization to step forward to provide this needed help. ENF, and its predecessor, was the first organization in the nation to save habitat for the bald eagle in the early 1970’s and has a history of over 50 years of researching and studying the bald eagle and educating the public about the bald eagle and its status, and speaking out on its behalf, many times since 1965 during court hearings. Now ENF is inviting every American to step up and join the cause, either as a research volunteer, or as a financial donor.
We need a core of hundreds, if not thousands, of volunteers to join our research team and monitor at least one bald eagle nest near their home or work for the next nesting season. Every person who joins ENF and volunteers to monitor a nest will become a member of ENF’s research team and will be so honored. Even if you cannot monitor a bald eagle nest, you can still help the bald eagle with your donations. Any size donation will help, both large and small. All donations are needed.
All Americans need to step forward. We need sports teams to sponsor bald eagle benefit games, Lion’s and Eagle’s clubs to sponsor bald eagle benefit suppers, bands and musicians to sponsor bald eagle benefit concerts, schools to sponsor bald eagle benefit activities and magicians and others to sponsor bald eagle benefit programs. Americans need to show the world that they love the bald eagle and want to keep it flying in the wild.
If help doesn’t come soon we may lose the bald eagle in the Midwest, for its population numbers today are far below where they were in the early to mid 1960’s, especially the number of immatures that are present, as well as the percentage of immatures compared to adult eagles. Please send your donations and research memberships to the Eagle Nature Foundation, 300 East Hickory Street, Apple River, IL 61001, call 815-594-2306 or visit our website, eaglenature.com.
For more information contact: Terrence N. Ingram, Exec. Director, Eagle Nature Foundation, 300 East Hickory St., Apple River, IL 61001 Phone 815-594-2306