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To inspire others to protect birds and the environment, she has blogged for the Conservation Fund, Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Triangle Land Conservancy, and Duke University, and is writing a birding guide to Northern New England for Wilderness Adventures Press.

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AUGUST 27, 2011

The estuary of this river had been populated by mangroves for centuries but most of it has been destroyed to give way to shrimp farming, luckily the local community of Puerto Portobelo became interested in the protection of the mangroves since they have been local fishermen who have benefited from the mangroves for many generations.

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Ecuador Farming Birds Protection 162

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JANUARY 2, 2024

of Chicago Press, 2014). The book is listed in the University of Chicago Press as the first in an “Earth Day” series , described as a series of short books offering “twenty-four chapters, corresponding to twenty-four hour-long windows to witness the diversity of life.” I do wish he had included Fairywrens!

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Barn Owls Chicago Penguins New Zealand 230

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JANUARY 3, 2014

By the early 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was aware that poison control centers were reporting 12,000 to 15,000 calls annually regarding children under the age of 6 ingesting rat poison, and rodenticides were documented as causing large numbers of secondary poisoning in wildlife.

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Rats Barn Owls Rodents San Francisco 252

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

the development of field-based ornithological research in Europe and Great Britain; a quick step back through the history to look at bird protection, conservation, and our precarious future, with a focus on Birkhead’s long-term (50 years!) Press, August 2022, 496pp., Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales. Size: 6.13

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Dissection Birds Europe Eggs 261

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MAY 26, 2016

Before I had a clue what I was doing, I encompassed the Danube backwaters into the reserve borders that I draw on transparent paper pressed against a street map of the city. The proposal was accepted and the new Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers IBA was recognised: Fourth: Try to protect as much of it.

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JULY 3, 2012

I also did not understand the centrality of the Delaware Bay to shorebird migration, how timing and geographic design and water quality and tidal streams, the rich salt marshes and protected beaches combine to make this specific area of New Jersey and Delaware “The Most Important Stopover of the Western Hemisphere.”

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Press, 2000), and updated in terms of taxonomy, status, and distribution. Actually, I thought I could press it and hear a bird call, till I remembered that this was a book not a web page.). Press in 2003. The information here is more extensive than what is offered in Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba by Orlando H.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

I had the good fortune to be asked to represent one of the UK’s national birding magazines ‘Birdwatching’ on a press trip to Southern Portugal earlier this month. In May 1992 European Union governments adopted legislation designed to protect the most seriously threatened habitats and species across Europe.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The conservation need is urgent: great attention has rightly been paid to Brazil’s Amazonian rainforest but not enough resources have gone to the Pantanal and the Cerrado, of which only 4% and 5%, respectively, are protected. If you didn’t win a free copy of The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds , better go buy a copy.

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JULY 13, 2011

btw, I promote equality in all ways, but I don’t bend over backwards protecting any either.&# In a press release, Michael Skinner, a law enforcement officer with the US Forest Service said warning signs of drug trafficking in the parks included, “tortilla packaging, Spam and Tecate beer cans.&# Not too many I bet.

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MARCH 10, 2017

Once he was a black child, and he grew up on a farm in Edgefield County, South Carolina, surrounded by protected woodlands and troubled human history. 24.00, Milkweed Press. The title and subtitle give you the story as straightforward as you like. Drew Lanham is a black man. Drew Lanham.

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JUNE 23, 2018

Then the EIS (environmental impact statement – a document required by federal law) hit the press. From that moment to this, the islands remain untouched thanks to the restrictions of the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act, actions by the Nature Conservancy, and ultimate management by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The descriptions of the territory’s birds, seals, whales, introduced mammals, invertebrates, and plants are written within the framework of the conversationist, so it is more than a field guide, it is a record of endangered wildlife and the efforts being made to protect it. The book is reasonably priced and can be purchased in the U.S.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 180

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Some of Great Britain’s most cherished seabirds just got an added layer of protection. Officials designated 12 miles along the coast of Northumberland as a Special Protection Area , according to Natural England, the U.K. government’s independent adviser on the natural environment.

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MAY 3, 2022

Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 257

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. Princeton University Press, 2011, 192 pp. They are great photographs, particularly the close-ups of frog irises and eyelids.

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 211

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

There is little factual material here about global conservation and protection, but that is not the book’s purpose. As I was finishing up this review, I discovered that Princeton University Press will be bringing out a U.S. Press, Fall 2012. His humor is wicked funny, especially when pointed at birding itself.

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JULY 8, 2011

A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary. Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.

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APRIL 13, 2015

Nearly 2,500 square miles of the wildest sections of the Omo Valley are protected in the almost contiguous Omo National Park on the river’s west bank (Ethiopia’s largest park) and Mago National Park on the east bank.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The facts are clear, we have an overpopulation of black bears in New Jersey, and we must address that issue," said Martin in a press statement. "A New Jersey’s first bear hunt in five years is just a week away and set to go on as planned despite a last-ditch effort by several animal rights organizations to have the hunt postponed.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

I just pressed the wrong button when working on the post on September 28 (feel free to insert your own joke about premature something here). I am sure none of you wondered why my Shanghai post for September was already published on the 28th. However, I will explain the reason to you anyway.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

From a press release by the American Bird Conservancy. It puts our ecologically valuable wildlife at risk and disrespects the men and women charged with protecting our natural resources. The outcome of today’s trial will undoubtedly embolden extremist groups.

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DECEMBER 24, 2010

The settlement provides limited protections for the county from further litigation. The money will cover a portion of PETA's legal fees for a lawsuit the group filed in January about animals that had been sold by the county shelter for research purposes. PETA will have access to the requested records.

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JUNE 21, 2009

From the Humane Society's press release. nonprofit organizations that seek to protect, provide services to or advocate for animals, and to advance scholarship in the field. I've been looking for something like this for a long time.

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2009 District of Columbia Humane Society Of The United States Humane 100

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MAY 24, 2009

From the press release: “To characterize protest and speech as terrorist activities is ludicrous,” said Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) cooperating attorney Matthew Strugar. These activities are protected by the First Amendment. And it is not just animal rights activists who are in danger here.

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APRIL 18, 2009

Four senior Wildlife Officers have been arrested and imprisoned after the state Congolese Wildlife Agency (ICCN) pressed charges for complicity in the destruction of the protected forests of Virunga National Park in the east of DR Congo. And these particular guys deserve it.

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Gorillas Congo illegal Endangered Species 100

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Even though a 2013 petition by the Royal Society of Protection of Birds failed to convince the Scottish parliament to make it official, the campaign to make the Golden Eagle Scotland’s national bird continues.

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Lions Eagles Hunting Lamb 184

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MARCH 22, 2024

Many years ago I interviewed Barbara Young, then the newly recruited chief executive of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), for an article for The Daily Telegraph. Swarovski’s dominance at the top-end of the market is relatively recent; Zeiss was the former No 1.

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Austria Factory Germany Portugal 242

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MARCH 12, 2011

Thanks also go to Cornell University Press for providing the giveaway copy. Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled.

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Deer 150

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MARCH 20, 2011

In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. I have always supported our wildlife management organizations for the hard work they do and for their dedication to wildlife protection. Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 244

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Videos illustrating some of the action seen from the “SEC” can be found on a special page on the University of Chicago Press website, linking to 14 examples of penguin and other Antarctic mammal behavior. Kooyman and Jim Mastro, with a Foreword by Jessica Ulrika Meir University of Chicago Press, Nov. And that may be o.k.

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Penguins Seals Leopards Mammals 199

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

Much of Wingate’s professional life revolved around his grand plan to create a “living museum” of pre-colonial Bermuda flora and fauna on Nonsuch Island, a habitat where the cahows would be protected and supported. Beacon Press, 2012. —————-. by Elizabeth Gehrman. Hardcover, 256 pages.

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Rats Breeding Birds 2012 192

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

She happens to live in the middle of the New Forest, 94,000 acres of heath and woodland, protected as a National Park and probably the UK’s best area in which to find Dartford Warbler. This dilemma comes from a visit to see my sister this week and being squeezed for time. So what does one do?

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Family Morals Birds Protection 100

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MARCH 18, 2011

Many of the fruits, seeds and flowers that make up a significant part of a macaw’s diet in this part of the Amazon basin have evolved with naturally occurring toxins designed for the plant’s self-protection. The clay consumed at the colpa contains chemicals that bind with these ingested alkaloids thus neutralizing their toxicity.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Deer 255

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OCTOBER 28, 2017

Check the nearest fruiting fig and you would be hard pressed not to find a few Red-eyed Vireos , Summer Tanagers , Baltimore Orioles , Swainson’s Thrushes , and a Scarlet Tanager or two. Put the focus on infinity, look up into the blue, and you will probably see a constant movement of swallows no matter the time of day.

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Costa Rica Parrots Farming Birds 188

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AUGUST 30, 2015

This is a great place to catch a few west coast specialities if time is pressing. Bring gloves and a coat to protect you from the wind. The journey time is about 30 minutes and a hour should be enough for a quick look round. It is only a couple of blocks short, but if time is against you… There is an express service.

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