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Armed with binoculars and fancy camera equipment, the birders bring economic activity to the area with an average spend of $662 per trip on hotels, restaurants, tours, and travel, adding up to a $313 million infusion to Cape May County.
Credit user mconnors / morgueFile Operators of domestic abuse hotlines across the state say more women are calling them in crisis, as pandemic stress has led to more violence at home. Eric Stiles, a program director with the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, says they’ve documented an increase in survivors of abuse who have called their statewide hotline in 2021, compared to last year. Stiles says operators also spent more time on the phone with women. He says many of the callers are in more vulnerable situations because they lost their job or car during the pandemic. ...
MORGUEFILE Operators of domestic abuse hotlines across the state say more women are calling them in crisis, as pandemic stress has led to more violence at home. Eric Stiles, a program director with the non-profit Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, says they’ve documented an increase in survivors of abuse who have called their state-wide hotline in 2021, compared to last year. Stiles says operators also spent more time on the phone with women. He says many of the callers are in more vulnerable situations because they lost their job or car during the pandemic. “That pu...
Credit: (Jon Hurdle) Larry Niles Larry Niles has spent the last 25 years trying to ensure the survival of the red knot and the horseshoe crabs the bird depends on at New Jersey’s Delaware Bay beaches. But he says it’s much too soon to declare victory. Niles, an independent wildlife biologist who once headed New Jersey’s endangered species program, was shocked to find in the late 1990s that the tiny shorebird’s population had plunged by some 80% because the crab eggs it needs to complete a long-distance migration had been badly depleted by an over-harvest of the crabs for the commercia...
Credit: (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File) File photo: Wind turbines from the Deepwater Wind project off Block Island, Rhode Island Opposition to New Jersey’s coming surge in offshore wind farms is growing at the Jersey Shore. The hundreds of wind turbines due to be built up to 20 miles off New Jersey in the next five years or so will spoil ocean views, undermine local economies and hurt wildlife while boosting the profits of overseas developers, critics say. These opponents reject claims by wind farm builders and their enthusiastic supporters, including Gov. Phil Murphy, that the clusters of t...