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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

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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. What to do?

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Former Virunga Park Officials In Prison

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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.

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

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Cuban Black Hawk, split in 2007 from Common Black Hawk! 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. Cuba is on my mind. 26 endemics! Garrido, et al.,

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators. published by Princeton University Press in 2011 is actually the same book as the Sasol Birds of Southern Africa, 4th edition , published by Struik Nature. So, the best way to find a leopard is to find the kill. Struik, 2011).

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Bird Litigation: Wind Turbine Near Ottawa NWR

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That sounds important (the ABC press release is here ), but what is the dispute really about and what happens next? Paragraphs 40-52 state that a turbine was initially proposed by the Air Force in 2007, at Camp Perry, a location just “0.1 The lawsuit was filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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conservation legislation and regulation, a tool used to protect birds from irresponsible hunting, industrial intrusion and incidental take, habitat loss and pollution, and to encourage best practices by everyone, from birders to corporations. Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds.