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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). The 10-year-old Boa was pregnant and had been raised by McAdam since it was a baby. If the FWC killed 35 tortoises on video, it would be on mainstream news.

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

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The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. There aren’t many solutions proferred—the article is really about consciousness-raising—but it’s well worth a read. Fish and Wildlife Service). **And Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ).

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What is the National Bird of Honduras?

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It was decreed a national symbol of Honduras on 28 June 1993 by the National Congress of Honduras as a way to raise awareness of the varied avifauna of Honduras. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. The proposal from U.S.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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Then a few years ago the news broke that picathartes had been rediscovered at a community forest reserve in Ghana. According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008. Figures I could obtain indicate that Ghana’s forests have reduced alarmingly from 8.2

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