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Burrowing Owls of Cape Coral

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These owls don’t live in a state park or any sort of protected area, they live in the neighborhoods, right next door to stucco middle-class Florida homes, going about their business in a landscape of manicured lawns and screened-in porches.

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An American Avocet in Rookery Bay

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Unlike many other estuaries in this part of Florida, Rookery Bay is protected by the Estuarine Research Reserve system, and remains almost entirely undeveloped.

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Birding Breezy Point

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Breezy Point, the westernmost tip of the barrier islands that protect Long Island’s south shore, is also the southwestern most portion of Queens and one of my favorite locations to look for birds. I count myself particularly fortunate that I live in a world class city with access to some wonderful natural places.

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Peli Can-Do

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Both the US Environmental Protection Agency and California state law define fish remains as sewage, and it must be disposed of properly. Remembering a fourth-grade class where he learned that Massachusetts Native Americans planted fish heads along with their corn, he collected fish waste and composted it.

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I Remember Elephants

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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. And it gave me a hope. EU voted as a block of 28 votes “against”. Perhaps 15 minutes?

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Fire and Rain

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Fire is also more unpredictable than even floods, more sudden and acute than drought, falling close to the class of natural disasters that we dread the most, like earthquakes and avalanches, the sudden killers. They receive no protection, and are often destroyed by salvage logging as quickly as possible.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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.” They agree with George Wuerthner saying, “Nonhuman predators (wolves, mountain lions, coyotes, ravens and others) are disfavored by wildlife managers at all levels as competition for sportsmen and are treated as second-class citizens of the animal kingdom. All attempts to domesticate wild animals should be discouraged.

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