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The Reva Situation

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And the process lasted for almost a year, until 25 ha were buried under an 8 metres thick layer of rubbish. When Egret started a protest camp, blocking the lorries from entering the newly created dumping site, a few independent media covered the events, but the majority of state-subsidised (read: controlled) media remained deaf and blind.

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Beljarica Backwaters are finally protected!!

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Worried for the future of the backwaters, a local NGO League for Ornithological Action launched the Save the “Belgrade Amazon” campaign, with a video clip, an online petition, lectures, public protests, media appearances, an award winning 40 minutes documentary (by VICE), etc. I am glad it is finally protected.

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Frank Gilbert’s Awesome Hospital Cage

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When some birds start to feel better, they stay mellow and allow you to do what you have to do without much protest. You open one door, the bird moves to the other end, and you clean; then you close the door, open the second one, and repeat the process, all without having to touch the bird. Others, not so much.

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Recent Events Involving Our Public Lands Are Alarming

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In case you missed the latest news cycle, the seven armed antigovernment protesters thugs pictured above were acquitted last Thursday of federal conspiracy and weapons charges stemming from that takeover of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge last winter. From a press release by the American Bird Conservancy.

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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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Therefore, ahead of the elections expected in the spring of 2022, the Government is in the process of green-washing. Last March (2020), only a few days before the famous virus has reached Serbia, the Ministry of Construction and Traffic stated: “No, we gave up on the Beljarica locality, the harbour will be built somewhere farther upstream.”

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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At the same time, female relatives of the initiate allow themselves to be severely whipped with saplings, forming permanent scarring on their backs and in the process cementing lifelong allegiances between the parties. D’Arnaud’s Barbet displaying atop a fencepost. A young Hamar woman. The lovely Bruce’s Green Pigeon.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

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More important, it might be a much more efficient means of changing practice to stage protests at meat-packing companies, put pressure on congressmen, and work through existing humane organizations. It would be a way of protesting present practice, a way of saying, “I disagree strongly with the treatment of animals used for food.”