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JULY 9, 2015

Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low. The Guardian recently published the latest population analysis by the IUCN’s Dhole Working Group that has revealed that the area of occupancy of this species has significantly declined – close to 50% since the previous assessment in 2008!

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Critter News

JULY 5, 2011

A federal judge on Thursday upheld a 2008 decision to protect polar bears throughout their range as a “threatened” species under the U.S. This is good news. For the full story, here's the link to the Environmental News Network. Endangered Species Act.

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AUGUST 13, 2014

An unknown number of adult tricolors is shot each fall due to their similarity in appearance to red-wings, as red-wings are exempted from protection under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and are legally shot each fall as they feed on ripening rice.” The California population estimate derived from the Survey was 145,000 birds.

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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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JULY 1, 2018

The Pied Oystercatcher sitting on eggs in the header photo has used that particular area of Cable Beach just north of the rocks since 2008 and the pair has only successfully raised one chick and that was in 2012. He last raised a chick successfully in 2016 and has nested in this area since 2008. Nest site with a view. Eggs in the nest.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

By both Serbian legislation and the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, Pygmy Cormorant is a strictly protected species. Since the roosts of Pygmy Cormorants should receive official protection, how bright is the future? And the biggest Pygmy Cormorant roost in the World is hanging in a limbo.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

November 12, 2008) – Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomed a new baby white rhinoceros on Wednesday, Nov. Their second calf, Dakari, was born in August 2006, and their third, Crash, was born in May 2008. TAMPA, Fla.

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JULY 26, 2020

It would be nice to think they know us since their arrival at this location on Cable Beach in 2008! Hopefully they will be able to protect this chick until it can fly in a few weeks’ time. We waited and they called out the “safe” sound, which we have become familiar with over the years. Pied Oystercatcher family.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

4 0.81) and 1995–2008 (r 1?4 Based on the 1955–1994 relationship between total duck breeding population and duck stamp sales, about 600,000 fewer duck stamps than expected were sold annually during 1995–2008. allowing access for duck hunting with a reduced bag limit, another ($30?) for full season access and a super duper version ($50?)

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MAY 9, 2012

They are now protected by Taputeranga Marine Reserve , a marine reserve created in 2008 and to protect marine life around Wellington. In the distance you can see Red Rocks- access denied. Instead we turned back and investigated the rock pools along the coast.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2015

The pair of Pied Oystercatchers have been successful in raising a chick on two occasions that we are aware of in recent years and that was in 2008 and 2011. In fact they were the only pair to successfully raise a chick in the 2008 season and only one other chick survived in 2011. Pied Oystercatcher shading and protecting its chick.

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

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. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.

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Animal Person

MARCH 10, 2010

I credit Will Potter as the catalyst for shifting my focus away from critiques of other activists and activist groups (particularly his post, " While the Government Continues Attacks on Activists, Animal Rights Groups Protest Each Other " back in 2008). I'm not saying that criticism of PETA, or any other group, isn't warranted.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Well, basically it is a good area for putting a nest as there is ample food nearby and the dunes offer protection and good views of incoming predators. No eggs were laid in 2007, but in 2008 they laid their first two eggs and after three days they did not seem at all interested in sitting on them.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

He considers it a step forward in the protection of animals in Spain. She has also to pay 2,688 € to the animal refuge. Loa was six years old at the time she was abandoned, with her papers left with her. The refuge identified the owner via the microchip, but she did not want to take back the dog.

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JULY 17, 2012

Back in October 2008, in his first field job out of school, he helped a Cornell PhD student, Karl, with his dissertation on vocal communication in Green-rumped Parrotlets Forpus passerinus. Not good, I think – it will probably be another scorcher.

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JUNE 24, 2011

There’s a nice hide there that provides a great view but admittedly offers hardly any protection from the wind during rough weather (the hide is marked in the image below). I took that in spring of 2008, and the pools look a bit different since then, but it should give you the general idea.

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JULY 24, 2014

Indeed, by 2008, when I first really became aware of the issue, the West Coast of South Island was pretty much their only stronghold. I mentioned 2008 as the year I became aware of the issue. Conservation, as I have observed before, is interested in protecting the population and the ecosystem over the individual.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 6, 2008

4, 2008 by the Environmental Protection Agency to charge a fee for air-polluting cows and hogs. I don't know how seriously to take this, or if it's just the ag industry pulling an NRA stunt (ie. knee-jerk reaction to anything and everything.) There was} a proposal Thursday, Dec.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Such registries would help protect animals, pet guardians and communities by preventing repeat offenses from anyone with an established history of abusing animals. Through its campaign, www.ExposeAnimalAbusers.org , the animal protection organization is promoting model legislation that state legislatures could enact.

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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!) Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

They were protecting the last three pairs that were left in West Germany from egg thieves! The following image of an immature bird was taken by me (on my birthday) in July 2008 not far from said possible breeding location, so who knows? Since the 1920s, the species was protected from hunting and a slow yet steady recovery set in.

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MARCH 12, 2011

Say Hello to the Recurve-billed Bushbird Liben Lark Gets a Lifeline Birds of the Solstice: December 2008 About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. These Blasts From The Past New Bird Blog What’s In a Scientific Name?

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

In 2008, the Environmental Protection Agency charged Wildlife Services for its illegal placement of a sodium cyanide M-44 (a highly lethal booby trap) on public land, which harmed a U.S. The aerial gunning program has killed at least 10 agents and injured 28 more. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist and killed his dog.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14): The Spanish Parliament’s decision to grant rights to apes is indeed groundbreaking, and will foster philosophical discussion about animal protection for some time.

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JULY 9, 2014

People, they argue, are more important than bugs, and besides, the money will help pay to protect other conservation land. I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. They want to do this because of jobs and to extract economic benefit out of environmental areas. Sustainable hunting doesn’t.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Consumer boycotts and protective laws are desperately needed. 9, 2008 The writer is president of United Poultry Concerns , a nonprofit organization that is a sponsor of Proposition 2. To protect the welfare of the animals as well as the safety of America’s food supply, the A.V.M.A. Karen Davis Machipongo, Va.,

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Animal Ethics

JULY 8, 2008

During training with active sonar, we protect marine mammals by employing rigorous protective measures. Such protective measures were developed in concert with, and were approved by, federal environmental regulators. Larry Rice Director, Chief of Naval Operations Environmental Readiness Division Washington, July 3, 2008

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ A Disgraceful Farm Bill ” (editorial, May 16): While the farm bill recently approved by Congress deals with enormous agricultural policy issues, it also includes three important provisions to protect animal welfare. We hope Congress will vote to override the president’s veto.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Klinkenborg’s conclusion that an international effort similar to what is happening to address the current global financial crisis will be necessary to protect species prompts a question. What would it cost to stabilize our planet’s biological health by protecting species and their natural habitats?

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MAY 7, 2019

(I do need to note that a rare error crops up here–LISTSERV is not a generic electronic bulletin board, it is a propriety product owned by a company and the use of the term is protected by trademark law. It’s spelled this way, all caps, because that is the official name.). He received a B.A.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2008

While Alaska is increasingly devastated by global warming—melting glaciers, permafrost and sea ice, as well as the severe impacts on wildlife, ecosystems and people—she seems to be working not to protect the polar bear or ultimately the citizens of her state, but to make sure nothing gets in the way of energy company plans for expansion.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 23, 2008

To the Editor: In his past comments about protecting animals and nature, Pope Benedict XVI is building upon the Roman Catholic Church’s tradition of promoting faithful stewardship of all creatures (“ A Cat Lover in the Vatican Strikes a Chord With Cat Lovers Around the World ,” news article, April 20).

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 17, 2008

And you do not acknowledge the individual care that pigs get in such systems and the protection from predators, diseases and the aggression that pigs often exhibit toward each other in group housing. 10, 2008 Note from KBJ: Speaking of rhetoric, don't you love "individual housing" for " gestation stalls "?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 28, 2008

Since the introduction of longline fishing in the 1960’s, the Atlantic bluefin population has fallen by 97 percent, and the international bodies responsible for protecting this fishery have, because of its huge profitability, failed to impose catch limits that ensure its survival. Gil Kulick New York, Jan.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 17, 2008

Allan Kornberg Boston, March 11, 2008 The writer is executive director of the World Society for the Protection of Animals. Thank you for doing just that, by telling the American public what’s happening in Puerto Rico through your compelling article and photographs.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 28, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ Mustangs Stir a Debate on Thinning the Herd ” (front page, July 20): The Bureau of Land Management is charged with protecting wild horses and burros on the Western rangelands. July 23, 2008 The mustangs should never have been corralled in the first place. Let them go, and let them be.

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