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Disaster in the Sundarbans

10,000 Birds

On December 9th, a tanker slammed into another vessel inside the Chandpai dolphin sanctuary in the Sundarbans in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is doing all it can. Conservation Bangladesh oil Sundarbans' Photo (c) by Arati Kumar-Rao. I know you do. Now, add an oil spill into that picture. Photo (c) by Arati Kumar-Rao.

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Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Edicions)

10,000 Birds

Beside India, Lynx Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of South Asia covers Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Mammals of South Asia (Paperback) Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka Pages 173 Dimensions 14 × 22.8 I clearly needed a mammal book. Highly recommended.

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Where Have You Gone, Rhodonessa caryophyllacea?

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Such is the case with the Pink-headed Duck , Rhodonessa caryophyllacea , a native of India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. We can draw matters out according to our own inclinations of hope or despair. But when it comes to the moment of extinction, often we cannot know. Is it extinct? The debate has raged since the 1950s.

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India Reaches Out to Neighbors to Save Tigers

Critter News

Anyway, India is appealing to its other neighbors which would include Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. They have been pretty frustrated with China, who really doesn't give a rip about tigers.unless they can raise them on farms for "medicinal" harvest and other capitalist pursuits.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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Some scientists at Chittagong University, Bangladesh observed the behavior of Stork-billed Kingfisher and Pied Kingfisher at – guess where – Chittagong University campus (presumably they have some problems expensing travel costs). A kingfisher with a somewhat deficient work ethic, I guess. Or speluncaphobia?

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

In 1974 we shipped four times as much food to Cambodia and South Vietnam as to starving Bangladesh and Swahelian Africa. The government’s policy has been (and it is likely that it will continue to be) to sell grain to those countries that are able to pay and to those countries in whom we perceive our national security interest.

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Birding Tan Phu Forest, Vietnam (Part 1)

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Finally, the Orange-necked Partridge. It was only discovered in 1927, and until 1991, it was unclear whether it still existed ( source ).

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