The inspiring story of a young ornithologist who reintroduced puffins where none had been seen for a century Project Puffin is the inspiring story of how a Beloved Seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast.
He lives in Cambridge, MA..
Jackson, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for commentary and an accomplished photographer, is a contributing columnist at the Boston Globe.
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Kress is the National Audubon Society\'s Vice President for Bird Conservation and director of the Audubon Seabird Restoration Program and Hog Island Audubon Camp.
About the Author: Stephen W.
The need for such inspiration has never been greater.
Kress\'s Project offers hope that people can restore lost wildlife populations and the habitats that support them.
The success of Dr.
Further, reestablished puffins now serve as a window into the effects of global warming.
But even more exciting, techniques developed during the Project have helped to restore rare and endangered seabirds worldwide.
Yet bringing the plan to reality meant convincing skeptics, finding resources, and inventing restoration methods at a time when many believed in "letting nature take its course." Today, Project Puffin has restored more than 1, 000 puffin pairs to three Maine islands.
To right this environmental wrong, he resolved to Bring puffins Back to one such island--Eastern Egg Rock.
Kress learned that puffins had nested on nearby islands until extirpated by hunters in the late 1800s.
Stephen W.
As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr.
The inspiring story of a young ornithologist who reintroduced puffins where none had been seen for a century Project Puffin is the inspiring story of how a Beloved Seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast
