2003-01-29

Posted at 05:57 UT by Tamara

Tape 6 :Segment 22
Interviews of Tamara Lynn Scott: "Florida's Endangered Species"
Flamingo Gardens Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary
with
Michael P. Ruggieri: Director of Animal Care

December 31st, 2002
Davies, Florida

:20 seconds: Endangered Wood Storks : Recreate the Habitat of Drying lakes

"They are in South America too?"

"Yes, in South America,
You'll find them all along the Gulf coast.
Louisiana, Texas, Alabama."

"You were saying that the problem
in trying to breed them,
Is basically
you have to re-create the habitat
of the drying lakes."

"Right."

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Posted at 05:35 UT by Tamara

Tape 6 :Segment 21
Interviews of Tamara Lynn Scott: "Florida's Endangered Species"
Flamingo Gardens Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary
with
Michael P. Ruggieri: Director of Animal Care

December 31st, 2002
Davies, Florida

1:19 minutes: You Can't Duplicate the Drying of the Everglades

"You can't duplicate the drying of the Everglades."

"No"
"We tried increasing the food,
We tried putting food out here all day long,
To let the birds know
You have all the food in the world,
If you want to raise your babies,
We'll give you everything you need.
But it really didn't seem to work,
I don't know whether or not,
You know, it may take more.
But our two pair that we have,
Every year they build a huge nest.
You'll actually see copulation going on,
You'll see the female sitting on that nest
for Days and days and days.
But they've never dropped the eggs.
They go through all the motions,
And we think that they're gonna
do it every year
But they've never dropped an egg."

"And you say that most the populations
are heading to the North of Florida
where their landscape is still untouched?"

"Yeh, a lot of them have moved up the state."

"And you were saying there was a program
to set some of that landscape aside
so there's a space for them?"

"Yes.
Especially when they get
the Kissimmee River back to normal.
that will create
all these small wetlands areas,
and if we ever have a dry season,
Some of those ponds will start to dry up.
And The fish will get concentrated
And may trigger them to breed."

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2003-01-28

Posted at 05:50 UT by Tamara

Tape 6 :Segment 21
Interviews of Tamara Lynn Scott: "Florida's Endangered Species"
Flamingo Gardens Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary
with
Michael P. Ruggieri: Director of Animal Care

December 31st, 2002
Davies, Florida

1:04 minutes: Barometers of the Wetlands

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"In the wild they have to know
they have at least 400 pounds of fish
within a 3 month period,
in order for them to sustain life,
and for them to raise an offspring.
So if the everglades doesn't dry out naturally
and all these fish that are in the everglades
get consentrated in small ponds,
where it makes it easy fishing for these birds.
they will not breed"

"So no one's been able
to get them to breed successfully
in captivity
as far as you know?"

"No. I don't think anybody has,
Now where these birds came from,
When they first got it,
It did drop an egg,'

"They had captured them in the wild,
and it was already impregnated."

"Right.
They artificially incubated it.
The baby did hatch out..
but it died 5 days later,
it was born with some kind of disease."

"So the only way to save these birds
Is to keep their habitat."

"Oh Yes! Definitely!
Keep Their Habitat!
The Wood Stork is also called the
Barometer of the wetlands.
They're the indicator on how well your welands are doing.
If you have wood storks in your wet lands,
It's surviving.
If they leave it,
Thats telling you
there's something wrong."

"So they're like the canaries of the mines,
for the everglades."

"Right. "

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Posted at 05:42 UT by Tamara

Tape 6 Segment 22
Interviews of Tamara Lynn Scott:"Florida's Endangered Species"
Flamingo Gardens Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary
with
Michael P. Ruggieri Director of Animal Care

December 31st, 2002
Davies, Florida

1:19 minutes" What About the Gopher Tortoises?"

"There is going to be some problems.
Where years ago they drained some of the Everglades.
You have areas of land out there
that's been dry for 20 years,
Now that land is going to be back underwater.
And My biggest concern is
what are they going to do with these animals?
What about the Gopher Tortoises?"
I hope they remove some of these animals
before they open up the dams,
And flood these areas."

" Maybe they can do it gradually,
so the animals will have a chance to run away."

" Exactly.
Exactly."

"People around the world are watching this scenario..
Are there any other similar senarios in other lands.
Where they have the same problems
and could use the same solutions?"

"Well there's problems all over this world
Some of our river systems are so polluted
with factories along side of them.
There are quite a few animals
that are endangered around the United States,
due to just poor water quality,
the water is so poor to drink."

"Now which department is handling that. down here
is it Fish and Game?"

"It would be Water Management.
It would be the Army Corp of Engineers."

"Do You Think They're Doing a Good Job?
Do You Think They're Doing All They Can Do? "

" Well---"

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Posted at 05:36 UT by Tamara

Tape 6 :Segment 21
Interviews of Tamara Lynn Scott: "Florida's Endangered Species"
Flamingo Gardens Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary
with
Michael P. Ruggieri: Director of Animal Care

December 31st, 2002
Davies, Florida

48 seconds: Flamingo Roundup:Double Clutch

"Whenever Zoos want Flamingo's
they get permits to collect them out of the wild.
Well the wild flock here in Florida
is the Hialeah Racetrack.
So they use to go down there
when they had the babies,
The babies couldn't fly yet.
They'd go out there
and herd up all the babies,
And then take how many babies
they have for the permit.
Well this year we decided
let's take the eggs,
Cause if we take the eggs,
Then They'll probably double clutch.
They'll go ahead and lay another egg
cause they lost their first egg.

"That's Clever!"

"That way They can produce that population
without having the impact of collecting them."

"And are these eggs shared
with places all over the world?"

"All over the United States.
I don't know about all over the world."

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Posted at 00:01 UT by Tamara

Tape 6: Segment 21
Interviews of Tamara Lynn Scott;"Florida's Endangered Species"
Flamingo Gardens Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary
Michael P. Ruggieri Director of Animal Care

December 31st, 2002
Davies, Florida

1:09 minutes Reflooding the Everglades

"The Kissimmee River use to twist and turn
for miles and miles.
And what they did, is
they made it one big straight canal.
So they dug it down like 40 - 50 even 60 feet deep.
So all along side the river
there's a 35 foot high wall of dirt,
And that dirt has to go somewhere
So they have to put that dirt back into the canals."

"Well When they put it back into the canal,
Whats gonna happen is
the land will start to flood around it,
creating these big wetlands areas.
That's what happened years ago.
There were so many farmers in that area,
and small towns,
And these towns during a hurricane
would be 4 to 5 feet underwater.
So they built this canal
to try to drain off the land quicker
so they wouldn't have these floods.
So now they have to buy back all this land
that they're going to start flooding."

"So They know what the solution is.
It's a matter of getting it into place now."

"Right."

"And so they think it's about a 30 year program?"

"Yes, it's about a 30 year program
they said we'll take up."

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2003-01-27

Posted at 23:04 UT by Tamara

Tape 6: Segment 21
Interviews of Tamara Lynn Scott
at Flamingo Gardens:Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary
with Michael P.Ruggieri - Director of Animal Care
December 31st, 2002
Davies, Florida

43 seconds: We Can Conquer Our Own Ills.

" They don't want to go in there and destroy that whole canal
system, and find out they did something wrong.
So right now they're on the testing program of it.".

"And the whole world is watching to see what's happening."

"Oh yes. Oh Yes.
I mean this is very important.
This is our Drinking Water"

"It's our life chain.."

"Right."
"If the everglades is ever gone...
Plus the Everglades is
the largest swamps and environmental area,
It's the largest in the United States.
It's known worldwide.
You know."

"There are species here that are nowhere else."

"And its like we have to prove
We have to prove as a nation,
as a civilization
that we can Fix whatever we ( mess up )"

"That we can Conquer our own ills."

"Exactly. Exactly."

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