A deer near Gray’s Lake Park in Des Moines on June 13, 2025. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch)
A report released Wednesday from the Sierra Club Iowa Chapter calls for conservation connectivity efforts throughout the state, and its budgets, to protect wildlife species.
According to the report, habitat fragmentation, caused by the loss of habitat connectivity, is one of the “main reasons” for the loss of wildlife species in the state, as it reduced gene flow and therefore genetic diversity of wild species…