10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2024
When I last visited the town almost 10 years ago, it had a Wild West feel, and Wikipedia claims that it is “an important location for trade with Myanmar, in both legal and illegal goods and services” but it seemed pretty tame to me this time.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2023
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.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Yet, opposition to their full protection came from an unexpected side, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), whose Head of Delegation said: “These proposals would [not] have offered elephant populations any greater protection from the poachers. How much time did you need to read this blog? Perhaps 15 minutes?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2013
No matter how much we do to protect the breeding grounds of Neotropical migrants, we can’t assure the safety of those species that lose essential wintering habitat. Protecting even the most range-limited species sometimes requires that we look well beyond our respective borders.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2011
Environmental issues have joined no new taxes, no family planning, no illegal immigration, and no social safety net as irreducible (and nonnegotiable) planks in the Republican platform. How more blatantly anti-environment do Republicans need to be before birders act to protect themselves and their interests? It is well worth the read.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2009
This is an interesting piece from the Scientific American blog. How is anyone to know if it came from a species that is protected under national or international law? One of the major challenges in combating the bushmeat trade is identifying the source species for the meat and products.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2012
There seem to be so many that some days the negative stories just seem to pile up in my reader, species lost here, habitat destroyed there, poisoning, illegal persecution, the list can seem endless. It can be difficult not to feel impotent and under attack from all sides.
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