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From July 6-8, there was a European conference in Larnaca about illegal bird killing , organized by Terra Cypria. The concluding tone of the conference was also on a very positive note, with Cyprus pledging to adopt a “Zero-tolerance&# policy against illegal trapping activities. So it’s not a good week in Cyprus!
Thankfully the days of visiting Africa purely for slaughtering its wildlife have mostly come to a merciful end, and safari operators have adopted the Big Five term to market tours that offer sightings of the fortunate remanants of Africa’s once teeming great herds. In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!
There’s always a chance that we could ingest something bad for us, something that might even kill us – a peril we face anytime we swallow anything, in fact. Drinking is an act of risk and vulnerability, though it’s such an everyday part of our existence that no one thinks of it that way.
That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing.
Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. This represents 6% of the estimated mid-continental spring population of 322,700 birds for the same two decades. Tennessee found that out in January. But is this for real?
For starters, the official national animal is the unicorn, a fairy-tale beast chosen by Scottish royalty in the Middle Ages for its reputation as the natural enemy of the lion, the adopted mascot of English kings.
” (I love that term, and may adopt it for future use.) Fuller has not preached about the evils of the human practices that killed and dislocated the Passenger Pigeon; he hasn’t moaned and groaned or sentimentalized. 8) that could not possibly happen in Europe. It wasn’t just the mass killings in so many ways.
Late June night at the Casino Estoril, then the largest casino in Europe, located in the neutral Portugal where spies of all colours met. In it, Bloch becomes LeChiffre, Fleming becomes Mathis and Popov becomes 007 (it does sound a bit better than Tricycle Licensed to Kill), while the rest of the gambling scene remains the same.
Yet associations with death, burial, and general ill omen persist, culminating in the robin’s appearance as the unlucky victim of “Who Killed C**k Robin?”, It’s likely that people in Europe began associating the robin with midwinter long before there was ever a Christmas to celebrate. The still-living C**k Robin.
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