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10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2013
No matter how much we do to protect the breeding grounds of Neotropical migrants, we can’t assure the safety of those species that lose essential wintering habitat. Protecting even the most range-limited species sometimes requires that we look well beyond our respective borders.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Yet, opposition to their full protection came from an unexpected side, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), whose Head of Delegation said: “These proposals would [not] have offered elephant populations any greater protection from the poachers. How much time did you need to read this blog? Perhaps 15 minutes?
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2011
Environmental issues have joined no new taxes, no family planning, no illegal immigration, and no social safety net as irreducible (and nonnegotiable) planks in the Republican platform. How more blatantly anti-environment do Republicans need to be before birders act to protect themselves and their interests? It is well worth the read.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2024
When I last visited the town almost 10 years ago, it had a Wild West feel, and Wikipedia claims that it is “an important location for trade with Myanmar, in both legal and illegal goods and services” but it seemed pretty tame to me this time.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
On Saturday, as has already been mentioned on this blog , a couple of us went out to Breezy Point, the southwestern extremity of Queens, and were pleased to see a Snowy Owl in the dunes there. You rarely find a person – birder or non – who doesn’t want to take a good long look at a bright white owl.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2009
This is an interesting piece from the Scientific American blog. How is anyone to know if it came from a species that is protected under national or international law? One of the major challenges in combating the bushmeat trade is identifying the source species for the meat and products.
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2012
The reasons that these ten have been selected is to illustrate some of the myriad reasons that Africa’s birds are being driven to extinction; from commercial overfishing, powerline collisions, illegal trade, poisoning, traditional medicine usage, overgrazing and conversion of specialized habitats into agricultural land.
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