[mou] PBS special: "Crash: A Tale of Two Species" : red knots & horseshoe crabs

[Lisa Gelvin-Innvaer]

FWD: Announcement from Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network
(Note: the PBS website also has a link for reporting red knot sightings across the range

Lisa Gelvin-Innvaer
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>>> "Meredith Gutowski" <mgutowski at manomet.org> 2/1/2008 11:27 AM >>>

  WHSRNews Alert   01 February 2008

 The film "Crash: A Tale of Two Species," featuring the interconnected
worlds of Horseshoe Crabs and Red Knots, is premiering on the PBS
program "NATURE" on 10 February, Sunday, 8 p.m. ET.

The delicate, ecological relationship between Horseshoe Crabs and Red
Knots is vital to the survival of this amazing shorebird species as it
migrates between the Arctic and the tip of South America each year.
Nowhere is this interplay more evident than at Delaware Bay-the first
WHSRN Site of Hemispheric Importance. This film, by Emmy Award-winning
filmmaker Allison Argo, explores the issue of both species' alarming
population declines, the economic and biomedical importance of Horseshoe
Crabs to humans, and the urgent conservation efforts underway at
Delaware Bay and elsewhere. 

 For more information and local listings, visit 
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/crash/index.html 


Hope you can tune in,
--Meredith
Conservation Specialist
Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network
Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
P.O. Box 1770, 81 Stage Point Rd. 
Manomet, Massachusetts 02345
ph: 508/224.6521 extension 224
ww.whsrn.org, www.manomet.org