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On Multiple Wings and a Prayer: Harpy Eagles By Jacob Rosenfield This was an event held by the Wake Audubon Society with guest speaker Dr. Saine Rotenburg to talk about an expedition held to belize where the Harpy Eagles were found. The harpy eagles were found in Bladen nature preserve. This reserve is good for the harpys because it's relatively undisturbed, has low human pressure, and has a stable bottom up ecosystem. Once the harpy eagles were discovered the researchers started teaching the locals how to properly watch and study the birds as well as protect them from hunters and poachers. He also discussed how critical snails were to the harpy eagle's diet due to this ecosystem being a “bottom up “ ecosystem.They used drone mapping and machine learning to take hundreds of pictures of the rainforest and then used software to find palmtrees where harpy eagles might make their nests.

This relates to environmental science because it talks about local populations taking it into their own hands the protection and conservation of an endangered species as wells as the protection of its environment.It also shows a good example of a “bottom up” ecosystem as well as good uses of technology in environmental science.

