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African Crane Conservation Retreat

Between February 24 and March 5, 2018, I joined members of the African Crane Conservation Program in Uganda and Rwanda for a nine-day retreat focusing on team building activities, conservation planning and visioning for our East Africa programs, and learning new crane and ecosystem monitoring skills.

Using Photomedicine to Care for Aging Cranes

The International Crane Foundation supports a full-time veterinary team and comprehensive health care program for our captive crane population. The most common issue affecting the aging cranes in our captive population is osteoarthritis – affecting 10% of our current flock – which unfortunately has no cure. Recent research in the area of low-level light therapy has shown excellent results in treating chronic pain with no known side effects.

Why Cranes? Our Work is About Life on Earth

Forty-five years ago a great idea hatched to create a global organization – the International Crane Foundation – focused solely on the study and preservation of the world’s 15 species of cranes. But, why cranes? With so many important causes to support around the world, why would we focus our mission and vision so narrowly on cranes? Because, when the International Crane Foundation saves cranes, we save so very, very much more!

A Risky Climate for Cranes, Wetlands and Our World

I was working in Zambia when word came that the United States would pull out of the international Paris Agreement on climate change.  Listening to this news with a group of Zambian colleagues, I was saddened. In Zambia, and nearly everywhere we work around the world, climate change is treated as a life or death matter.

Jason Sauey

Jason C. Sauey is CEO of the Nordic Group of Companies, a family-held holding company of primarily three operating companies:  Flambeau, Inc.; Seats, Inc.; and Columbia ParCar.  Flambeau is a… Continue reading Jason Sauey