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A Rare Caribbean Parrot on the Brink

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He is a deputy Marsh Warden for the Celery Farm Natural Area in Allendale, N.J. Jim Wright’s latest book is The Real James Bond , the biography of the ornithologist whose name Ian Fleming stole for his secret agent 007. He writes “The Bird Watcher” column for the USA today newspapers in N.J. It would seem, therefore, that A.

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Moon Bears Rescued from Bile Farm in Vietnam

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Please note that the illegal bile farm was Taiwanese-owned. It's great that they were saved, but t hey arrived at the rescue center in wretched condition. Moon bears are rare, which makes this all the sadder. Again, the China connection. I can't read such stuff without being sickened by my species. Thank Animals Asia for the rescue.

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The Whistle Blowers

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In December, 1990, a single pair of ducks and some young birds began to feed at the farm of Mr. Willie Ebanks, at Hutland, Northside, in Grand Cayman. Soon the ducks were joined by others and by 1992, 16 pairs were regularly feeding at his farm. So he began to put out extra feed for the birds.

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Parrots in My Costa Rican Neighborhood

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They seem to be particularly interested in a group of large trees in a nearby coffee farm. A common bird of dry forest habitats, as the climate has become warmer and drier, it seems to have taken up residence in parts of the Central Valley. I see and hear a small flock of these small Amazons on a daily basis.

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Don’t Feed The Birds!

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The former is worse than the latter, though in some jurisdictions both would actually be considered illegal. We can find other ways to get him up close to birds, like visiting a local farm, getting him to responsible zoos, or just taking him out to places where other people feed birds.

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Europe's Pig Industry Mad about Undercover Investigation

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Compassion in World Farming led an undercover investigation that showed illegal tail docking and poor attempts at pig enrichment on factory farms, in violation of EU law. Tags: europe tail docking pigs factory farm agribusiness. Now the pig industry is mad and claiming bias ( scroll down in article.)

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Definitively the Egyptians!

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In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. Reasons for this situation are numerous.

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