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Beljarica Backwaters are finally protected!!

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Since August 23rd 2022 it has been considered a part of the newly protected Foreland of the Left Bank of the Danube Reserve. The initiative to protect this area was launched in 2010. sq mi of the Danube Backwaters in 2014. sq mi of the Danube Backwaters in 2014. I am glad it is finally protected. sq km / 7.2

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Birding in Greece – birdfinder book review

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Birding in Greece – Travel Guide to birdwatching sites in Greece (2014, 2nd edition – I was not aware of the first!) The book ends with a country checklist, 449 species long, and the contacts of the managing authorities of protected areas. I chose paper. So far, I read parts of the book, including chapters on areas I have visited (e.g.

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The Smell of Napalm in the Morning

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Out of these 136 bird species, 108 are strictly protected and further 28 protected by Serbian legislation. Considering the number of species, but also habitats of international conservation concern, protection of this area and its biodiversity is clearly an issue of wider European and not merely local significance.

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Black-backed Woodpeckers and Forest Fires in California and the West

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To protect this woodpecker and the post-fire ecosystems it depends on throughout California, in September 2010 the Center for Biological Diversity and the John Muir Project petitioned to list the bird under the California Endangered Species Act, earning it “candidate” status in the state, which does offer some protections for the bird.

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Shearwater Success: Seabirds Return to Rat-Free Islands

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After invasive rats had effectively extirpated Manx Shearwaters from two of the Isles of Scilly—British islands off the southwestern coast of Cornwall—Prince Charles and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) sprang into action. Agnes and Gugh. Those numbers may sound low.

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The Ultimate Reward

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The winter of 2014 is quite warm and the numbers are much lower, but the Opovo record, as counted by Vuckovic, is 250 owls. The world record holder is the town of Kikinda, further north, with 700 birds in their town square which has recently become an officially protected owl habitat – a small, urban nature reserve.

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I Remember Elephants

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The Great Elephant Census found that populations of Savanna Elephants Loxodonta africana have fallen by 30% between 2007 and 2014 (around 144,000 animals poached or population shrunk at a rate of 8% a year, a level higher than their reproduction rate; source https://peerj.com/articles/2354.pdf And it gave me a hope.

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