Approximately 23,000 acres of forestland in the Red Hills region of southwest Alabama has been bought up by The Conservation Fund, a leading national nonprofit in land protection. Why? To protect some slimy critters found exclusively in Alabama.
Published:The Red Hills salamander is a threatened species that The Conservation Fund has bought land to protect.Approximately 23,000 acres of forestland in the Red Hills region of southwest Alabama has been bought up by The Conservation Fund, a leading national nonprofit in land protection.is the only terrestrial vertebrate that inhabits only Alabama, according to Outdoor Alabama. They live in parts of just six counties: Crenshaw, Butler, Covington, Conecuh, Monroe and Wilcox.
The salamander spends most of its time underground, according to Outdoor Alabama. For about 12 hours from dusk to dawn, it stays at the mouth of its burrow system. The land, now known as the Red Hills Salamander Forest, was previously owned by Conservation Resources, a for-profit investment organization. Schock said that organization had been taking care of the land — without threatening the salamanders — since 2009. But when Conservation Resources decided to sell, The Conservation Fund stepped in to make sure the land was not split among multiple buyers, he said.
The Conservation Fund got a $17 million loan from the Richard King Mellon Foundation to help pay for the land. The Foundation seeks “to protect, preserve and restore America’s environmental heritage,” according to its. In addition to protecting the threatened species, The Conservation Fund says there will be other benefits to the environment from the purchase. Its thousands of climate resilient acres store roughly 3.
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