‘Open to anyone’: Oregon Zoo seeking volunteer pika watchers in the Gorge
The Oregon Zoo is enlisting citizen scientists to monitor pikas in the Columbia River Gorge, turning casual hikers into frontline defenders of a species facing extinction from climate change. These rabbit-like creatures, so sensitive to heat that they can die in temperatures above 78 degrees, have already vanished from much of their western range, making volunteer observations crucial to understanding whether the remaining populations can survive in an increasingly warming world. The program offers an unusual window into how zoos are abandoning passive spectatorship to crowdsource conservation in real time.
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