Is the population of whooping cranes still decreasing?
Thanks to rehabilitation efforts and legal protection, whooping cranes’ populations have stabilized but they remain a severely threatened species. The one truly wild band of whooping cranes that summers in the Wood Buffalo Park in the Northwest Territories has a stable or slowly increasing population. Efforts to reintroduce cranes along the eastern flyway are based primarily in Wisconsin at the Necedah Wildlife Refuge; there is a small but slowly growing population.
