Migratory Species Face Risk of Extinction

Migratory species are the subject of a new report presented at the United Nations this week. Find out why populations of migratory animals are declining, and what scientists recommend to conserve and sustain these threatened species and their habitats.

One of the simple pleasures at our family cottage is watching the hummingbirds come and go. I mean “come and go” in a couple of ways.

They’re remarkably agile little creatures and they flit around pollinating the flowers and gathering nectar. One a larger scale, they’re migratory, and they travel from our boreal forest retreat to South America and back every spring and fall.

I remember my late mother being astonished that such tiny feathered friends could manage that trip every year. They even return to the same nests after every pilgrimage.

Landmark Report on Migratory Species

The United Nations has taken an interest in migratory species recently. It released a landmark report on the subject at the opening of the 14th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS COP14).