Episode 187: The Woods
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Sewing Machines and the Woodpeckers
The ivory billed woodpeckers were still alive in 19 39 because the singer sewing machine company needed oak trees. But james tanner knew that couldn't last. He told the audubon society that the only way to save the birds was to save the woods. And so every now and again, over the past 80 years, some one would think they saw an ivory buillt wood. Now the us. Fish and wild life services announce that 23 creatures, eight types of fresh water muscel two s, a flowering plant native to hawaii, and 11 species of birds have gone extinct. They wanted to make the announcement in an effort to hilate the threats of climate
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