Bonsoir,
Raconter une histoire en anglais :
⇒ Several Years ago, Dale Shields was fishing near his home in Sarasota, Fla., on a summer evening. He looked down and saw an apparently dead pelican with a damaged wing lying on the shore in the hot Florida sun . Then the pelican slowly blinked an eye.
This bird is still alive, thought Shield . I' ve got to help it ! He gathered the pelican in his arms and rushed home .
Shields called eveyone he thougt might offer advice, but no one knew what to do . So he cleaned the bird himself with peroxide and water; then with gause bandage and water twings , he prepared a splint.Weeks later , Shieds and sent him on his way.
But Shield learned that poisonous pesticides, pollution and fast boats were killing and maiming the pelicans and wreaking havoc with their food supply. They were strangled by plastic rings from six-packs and shot for sport. Shields created a nonprofit rescue, rehabilitation and education service, and in 1988 the City of Sarasota granted the Pelican Man's Bird Sanctuary a 20-year lease at $I per year on City Island, overlooking Sarasota Bay. The Sanctuary has enlisted more than 7000 members in 50 states and abroad , a staff of over 250 volunteer workers and ten paid employees. It has rescued over 40,000 birds.
Today Pelican Man's Bird Sanctuary houses a clinic, an education center and a covered pavilion where visitors can watch birds play in their pens . More than 100,000 people visit each year.
Wayne Mayhall II .
Bonne continuation ! ;)
