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Padre Island National Seashore protects the north end of Padre Island along the Texas coast, preserving seventy miles of shoreline in a largely undeveloped barrier-island landscape of beaches, dunes, tidal flats, and the hypersaline Laguna Madre. Padre Island is the largest Texas barrier island and is described as the world’s longest undeveloped barrier island. The seashore is especially important for wildlife, with hundreds of bird species using it along the Central Flyway and significant habitat for redheads and other birds. It is also closely tied to the recovery of the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, while ongoing cleanup and research address marine debris and other modern pressures.
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Port Mansfield, Texas · United States
