Event: Rio
Grande Delta Audubon Chapter meeting.
Date: Monday, April 6, 2009
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Historic Brownsville Museum located at the old Southern Pacific
Depot at 7th and East Madison Streets. A locator map is on this web site. Contact Lee or Jennie at 956-831-4653 - 866-279-1775 e-mail riorvpark@aol.com for any questions.
Admission: Free
The Rio Grande Delta Audubon Chapter meets at 6:30 p.m. on the the first
Monday of each month at the Historic Brownsville Museum, 7th and East Madison.
Greg Vail |
| is our speaker this month on how to work through the City of Brownsville to increase conservation in your neighborhood. He has succeeded in making that difference in his neighborhood with the development of a park and preserving native habitat. |
Peggy Knopp brought Earth Hour to my attention. |
March 28, 2009, at 8:30 pm, many took part in Earth Hour-a global event in which millions of people turned out their lights to make a statement of concern about our planet and climate change.
Sponsored by World Wildlife Fund, Earth Hour got started just two years ago and is now the largest event of its kind in the world. Participating in Earth Hour is easy, fun and free. I hope you will read about this amazing event and plan to participate next year.
More on Earth Hour |
National Audubon's Sabal Palm Scantuary CLOSING this summer |
Bob Benson, Executive Director of Texas Audubon is closing the sanctuary to the public this summer with special group entry fees and a reduced schedule during the winter. Click for more on Press release.
Eco-tourism and further conservation in the Brownsville, Texas area are jeopordized by the reduced operations of the Sabal Palm Sanctuary.
Brownsville and birder's opportunities expanded with the opening of Resaca de la Palma state park on the west side of Brownsville. Brownsville nature developement has lagged behind the rest of the Rio Grande Valley up until the opening of Resaca de la Palms December 2008. Resaca de la Palma's opening meant eco-tourist's dollars with increased nature opportunities here for the traveling birders. This would also mean added visitation dollars supporting nature opportunities like Sabal Palm Sanctuary, Gladys Porter Zoo, and Los Ebanos Sanctuary. The importance of increasing eco-tourism support with more nature opportunities in Brownsville, Texas is evident when looking at how the car dealers, restaurants, and shops (Malls) group in all cities increase their business. In nature some believe creating a shortage of nature opportunities will help while the opposite actually happen's.
IE: Keeping competitive nature opportunities at a minumn does not help existing facilities, but reduces the visitations causing losses in revenue to all. The reduced money even slows protection of other nature sites. Each nature venue in Brownsville does not operate in a vacumn but as a whole group. I have not heard of another nature venue reducing operation other than normal summer changes in the Rio Grande Valley. The actions of one facility affects all others.
by Lee Zieger |
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