10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2024
Interestingly, the first description of a nest of Whitehead’s Spiderhunter was only published in 2015. So, like a football stadium named after an insurance company, the broadbill ended up bearing a name celebrating a sponsor. Leave the bad jokes to me, please.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided a MBTA case in 2015 and the opinion details one prosecution. Shane also agreed to cooperate, and he conceded that he knew it was illegal to sell hawk and eagle parts. Details can be found here and a report with numerous photos of the illegal feather trade can be found here.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2015
On average, over 100 rhinos were illegally killed each month. The annual number of rhino poached in South Africa last year rose to 1,215, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa told a media briefing in Pretoria two weeks ago. Molewa added that so far this year 49 rhino had been killed countrywide.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2015
The 31 teams, 15 of them international and 16 local, set out as the clock struck midnight on March 24th, 2015 to scour the southern part of Israel for as many bird species as possible. Since 1974 it has been illegal to harvest birds there with mist-nets and limesticks. The competition raised over $50,000 for this very important cause.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
June 9, 2015 – It’s deja vu all over again. The State of Louisiana has increased fines for illegal killing of bears. The latest press release from the USFWS. The proposed rule also modifies existing refuge-specific regulations for more than 100 additional refuges and wetland management districts.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 7, 2017
Snowy Owls are at risk of getting killed via collisions, incidental poisoning from rodenticides, and even illegal hunting (Stone et al. It is estimated that Snowy Owl populations in North America have declined by 52% since the 1960s (Berlanga et al. 1999, Holt et al. of Snowy Owl deaths (Kerlinger and Lein 1988). Evans, and D. Kerlinger, P.,
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2015
The number of tigers in India has seen a sharp rise to 2,226 tigers from just over 1,400 seven years ago,” Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Tuesday, January 20, 2015. It is a success, despite the heavy burden of poaching and a human-tiger conflict.
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