Andrea Jones, Director of Bird Conservation at Audubon California is quoted in a Smithsonian article today. The article, Climate Change is Taking Down Birds in the Mojave Desert, takes a look at the recent findings from the Grinnell Resurvey Project at UC Berkeley, which released their results from the Mojave area yesterday showing a 43% decrease in avian diversity due to climate change.
Read the article here.
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