10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

And unlike the protection of cormorants, which was perceived as a problem, protection of pelicans was welcomed by the local communities. Asian water buffaloes were brought to Greece by Ottoman Turks centuries ago and by now, they have developed into a separate race, the Greek buffalo, which is protected as an old domestic breed.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

On the website he reminisces fondly about his “best hunt,” where he killed 3,125 crows in 9 days, bringing to mind the days when people slaughtered seemingly endless flocks of passenger pigeons and herds of buffalo. Read your own headline, take a look at the buffalo skulls pictured at right, and wake up, Rip Van Winkle.

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Killing Animal Abuse Slaughter Slaughtered 272

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

Tell me, what happens if we rip away hunting when hunting protects more wildlife land in Africa than national parks? Conservation is concerned about protecting populations, species, habitats, ecosystems. So now there are lots of lions, and they like buffalo, so now there are less buffalo. And that lions are really cute.

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Lions Sierra Leone Hunting Buffalo 257

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

And embattled minority should be protected. People that are interested in conservation are all about the should – conservation’s raison d’être is the people perceiving that we should protect species and ecosystems, we should not allow them to be lost to extinction. A hungry child should be fed.

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Tigers Hunting Game Iraq 225

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The next morning is for the Kerkini Lake, one of the youngest national parks of Greece, protected only ten years ago, in 2006 and inhabited by 11 amphibian, 27 reptilian, 44 mammal and 312 bird species. Cows and water buffaloes grazing the dried up lakebed under the imposing shadow of Mt.

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Greece Boars Woodpeckers Eagles 259

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Nearly 2,500 square miles of the wildest sections of the Omo Valley are protected in the almost contiguous Omo National Park on the river’s west bank (Ethiopia’s largest park) and Mago National Park on the east bank.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Cattle 255

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2013

But in the end, being dead doesn’t protect an animal from mortality. It is responsible for some of the happiest moments of my childhood, the trips to the Buffalo Museum of Science that kindled my passion for nature; and yet, the quest for specimens ushered some of my favorite species of birds out of the world.

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Elephants Gorillas Buffalo Mammals 176

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Dedicated keepers at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Nairobi Elephant Nursery in Kenya protect baby Shukuru from the cold and rain, and the risk of pneumonia, with a custom-made raincoat. Her husband was David Sheldrick, the renowned naturalist and founding warden of Tsavo East National Park who died of a heart attack in 1977.

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Elephants Kenya Wounded Rhinos 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

John James Audubon first heard the sparrow in July, 1944, on a buffalo hunt in North Dakota. There is a small resident population in Polk County, Florida, in the middle of the peninsula, mostly on protected land, and once in a while they show up in a place where they can be easily observed.

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2018 Michigan North Dakota New Jersey 202

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

And, proceeds from sales of Duck Stamps have secured and protected over 6 million acres of wetland and grassland habitat.** (Though, Duck Stamp sales are decreasing, a major cause for concern.) She also grew up in upstate New York, which makes me wonder if she had a hand in that Buffalo mystery bird page?).

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Ducks Geese North America Hunters 173

AnimalEquality.net

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Investigators captured the following: Footage revealed approximately 1,500 buffaloes hacked to death in the… Source As the world’s largest animal sacrifice, this event continues every five years despite widespread international outcry.

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Nepal Buffalo Animal Investigation 104