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Mammals of Madagascar (Lynx Edicions)

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Most mammal guides aimed at wildlife watchers (and not scientists) tend to cover small and cryptic species as a group only, not going to a species level. Mammals of Madagascar with the Comoros, the Seychelles, RĂ©union and Mauritius (Paperback) by Russell A. Highly recommended. Mittermeier, Olivier M. Langrand, Don E. Wilson, Anthony B.

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Rare Tortoises Found in Luggage

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I've finally started getting email updates from Traffic, the wildlife trade monitoring network. The tortoise- and drug-filled bags had come in on 1 June on an Air Mauritius flight and were discovered by Customs officers at the airport. Tags: wildlife smuggling tortoises.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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Along the way he discovered German falconer and wildlife artist, Renz Waller, who successfully bred a pair of Peregrines twice during some of the worst conditions of WW II and two American falconers, Larry Schram and Heinz Meng who were successful in breeding Peregrines from 1968 to 1971.

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The man who saved species

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People sometimes question the value of saving critically endangered species , the ones for who all hope seems lost.

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A History of Birdwatching in 100 Objects: A Review

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The story of the flightless Dodo, discovered on the island of Mauritius in 1598 and killed off by 1700, is sad and familiar. Number 33, Parabolic reflector, 1888, for example, starts with the invention of the reflector by a German physicist and broadens into the early history of wildlife sound recording technology.

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