Remove 2003 Remove Hunters Remove Protection
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The Changing Fortunes of Europe’s Vultures – Part 1

10,000 Birds

In Franco’s day, a price was paid to farmers and hunters who brought evidence of having shot “vermin”. All this changed with protection. A Griffon Vulture ditches in the sea off Gibraltar and struggles to keep its head above the water Since 2003, Ruppell’s Vultures Gyps ruepelli , have been showing up with the Griffons.

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Flock to Marion

10,000 Birds

This is a cruise like no other, full of scientific lectures, over forty guides spread out on deck, bird-themed parties, and a lights-off mandate to protect birds at night. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013. The seal hunters accidentally introduced mice to Marion, as was the case for many islands around the world.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

Animal Person

Environmentalists recognize the meat industry as extremely ecodestructive – including fish, dairy, eggs, feed crops with their massive use of water & topsoil and toxic runoff killing rivers and oceans, and the killing of billions of free-living animals to protect farmed animals and feed crops.