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Endangered & Extinct Maryland Animals

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Last month, the International Union for Conservation of Nature revealed that over half the world’s primates – including apes, lemurs and monkeys – are facing extinction. Several of these 25 primates-in-peril have fewer than a hundred of their kind left.

It’s a startling truth, but one that doesn’t feel close to home. 

Did you know that our Chesapeake Bay watershed is fighting to save its own endangered species?

W. Brooks Paternotte took the helm of Irvine Nature Center as executive director in July 2013 and immediately began building on the strong 35-year foundation. Brooks is a Baltimore native who was a teacher, coach, advisor, dean and Head of the Middle School during his 13 years at Boys’ Latin School in Baltimore. He is also an instructor and ambassador of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) and is a Leave No Trace Master, as well as an avid outdoorsman and a features writer for FlyLife Magazine.
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