Hunters Protection Rights 
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
99% of the commentary I have seen has been angry bordering on outright hostile, the few exceptions mostly being the kind of right wing “news” sites that love nothing more than tweaking a tree-hugging liberal like myself. This Lion should not be shot, as it is a protected reserve that forbids shooting.
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2013
million hunters. This means that only 11% of hunters buy the Duck Stamp raising approximately $25 million a year. Since its inception that $800 million has helped to protect over 6 million acres of habitat for wildlife and future generations. This is wonderful news right? Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) counted 71.1
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2012
Many of these refuges and associated Conservation Areas, which have the potential to protect more than 1 million acres of vital wildlife habitat, have been forged through creative partnerships with sportsmen, conservation groups and private landowners. President Obama has added 10 new refuges in his first term.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2017
Protection of the area is far more important than my personal birding needs (my birding obsession, to be honest, addiction even). In the 21st century this may sound like 19th century reasoning, but I fight because it’s the right thing to do. Cover photo : White Hunter Black Heart, 1990. I feel pretty good, really.
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2014
It preserves habitat, protects wildlife. They don’t take into account the valid concerns non-hunters have about buying the stamp, which fall into two main areas: 1. Many wildlife watchers, birders and photographers don’t want to support a stamp that is so intimately and historically associated with hunting.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2019
They may have been disturbed by the presence of hunters in the Danube backwaters. When I reached the levee earlier that morning, I met an elderly hunter from whom I learned that there was an ongoing duck and pheasant hunt, but no one was shooting from, nor towards the embankment, hence I should be safe there.
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2024
An exhausted, panting, Griffon Vulture sits on a sea wall at Gibraltar, with a backdrop of spring-colorful wildflowers at Gibraltar These birds have crossed the Sahara Desert to winter in the Sahel Region, some right down to Senegal in West Africa, and are now on their way back. All this changed with protection.
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