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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan
The Ace Basin – A Conservation Miracle
Season 2
Episode 209
What happens when large pieces of land are conserved? Amazingly enough, what we find is a congregation of some of the rarest species of wildlife – at least that’s what happened in the Ace Basin. Large, intact sections of protected habitat bring common and seldom-seen organisms alike, and may depend on this area for some or all of the year.
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