Endangered whooping cranes released in Louisiana in efforts to avoid extinction

GRAND CHENIER- The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced on Tuesday that a group of 12 juvenile whooping cranes were released into LDWF's Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge on the coast of South Louisiana.The juvenile cranes will join 49 other whooping cranes that are a part of an experimental population being monitored by LDWF.Of the 12 cranes, seven were reared at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland, two were raised at Calgary Zoo in Canada, and three were hatch