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12 Reasons Why Dogs Help With Depression and Anxiety

4 The Love Of Animals

The World Health Organization declared April 7th, 2017 as World Health Day, a day focusing on mental health, but it’s also a year-long campaign which aims to educate, raise awareness and help people suffering from mental illness. Depression, Anxiety, and … Continue reading →

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The Whistle Blowers

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Between 1985 and 1991, the ducks suffered a further drastic decline with fewer than 100 birds estimated from Grand Cayman. The National Trust of the Cayman Islands describes the success story as follows, “Willlie grows fruit and vegetables and raises pigs, and he noticed that the ducks were nibbling at the pig food.

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Protecting the Hyacinth Macaw and the Cerrado

10,000 Birds

Mating pairs are faithful for life and share the tasks of raising the young. Last but certainly not least, the macaw suffers along with the other species in its ecosystem from rampant habitat destruction and deforestation. The Hyacinth Macaw doesn’t start a family until it is seven years old.

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What’s Up with the ABA?

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T]he Association had suffered net losses and has a net deficiency in net assets that raise substantial doubt as its ability to continue as a going concern.”. I am not an accountant, but “substantial doubt” as to the ABA continuing as “going concern” strikes me as a very significant problem.

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Climate Change and Birds

10,000 Birds

Their remarkable survival skills, evolved over thousands of years, rely on a chain of stopover feeding grounds and habitats for breeding and raising young – but break any one link and the survival of the entire species is threatened. Climate change is the biggest threat to migratory birds this century. ” GL: Aha.

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The Brown Teal

10,000 Birds

Unlike the situation in Mallards the males of the Brown Teal will remain with the female after laying to guard the breeding territory and even helping raise the ducklings once they have hatched. Like many interesting New Zealand endemics the Brown Teal has unfortunately suffered badly at the hands of man. Almost fully grown young bird.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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But Mars’s character is less about being an eagle and more about the fact that he was stolen from his nest, raised in captivity, and now considers almost all of mankind – except Luna – to be his enemy. It was when Hélène says to Ned, “And when the stakes were the highest, you raised an eagle on your glove.”.