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What Is A Flamingo Lover
By Flamingo Lover | February 25, 2008
When I decided to share with flamingo lovers, my first thoughts were about those of us that always find more flamingo items to add to our collection, always find room for one more flamingo.
In truth, the real flamingo lovers are the folks that over the years who have had the opportunity to interact and save real live flamingos. The pink flamingo birds are not here without their efforts.
Beside the natural circle of life, food chains, etc… pink flamingos have had humans preying on them. They have been hunted for the pure beauty of their feathers and how those feathers could add plumage to hats, dresses and clothes.
I will mostly be referring on this site to flamingo lovers in the sense of the collectors and the people that are enjoying them today because of the efforts of the true “flamingo lovers” who are the conservationists that have made sure the real ones are here for us to see and know about. Perhaps out of the frivolity of some of my flamingo topics, awareness can continue about the importance of keeping our flamingo friends safe will arise.
Flamingos have been nearly extinct in the Caribbean. Specifically in the Bahamas, in the early 1900s, they were hunted as a food source and there were only 3,000 in insistence, down from approximately 100,000 in this area at that time. Ardastra Gardens has been instrumental in protecting pink flamingos and the success of breeding them back.
The pink flamingo is in peril now in Africa. These are the Lesser Flamingo population. More than 75% of the world’s total Lesser Flamingo population is found in East Africa. A proposed chemical plant for Tanzania’s Lake Natron could make this species of the pink flamingo bird extinct. You will see a lot about Union Products closing and the demise of Don Featherstone’s plastic flamingo being out of production. Many have called this the extinction the flamingo. In reality, it was the possibility of the extinction of the plastic pink flamingo lawn ornament.
The crisis facing live pink flamingos is more realistic in using the term “flamingo extinction”. Folks have rallied around the program to “Adopt A Manatee” to keep this species protected and raise awareness about their demise from humans and boat motors. Perhaps, there will come an opportunity to “Adopt A Flamingo”. Maybe, buying a stuffed flamingo will lead to a donation to their preservation.
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