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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. National wildlife refuges provide premier outdoor recreational opportunities across the Nation.

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Definitively the Egyptians!

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Hence, I was quite surprised with a brave, almost exciting paper by Brown, Forbes and Symes: “Recent history of the Egyptian Vulture in Southern Africa” (Vulture News, 2000). Get more serious, if you want to be taken seriously… And so, the aspiring scientists soon learn that the absolute highlight of scientific writing is – boredom!

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Though the third-most densely populated county in the United States (as of the 2010 census, thank you Wikipedia), about 25% of Bronx land is open, public space. Most importantly, the section ends with a list of questions for future studies and recommendations for wildlife and habitat management. It’s a very mixed chapter.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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million people (2010 census). According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008. Between 1990 and 2010, Ghana lost 33.7% An illegal hunter in Atewa Range Forest Reserve with his catch, a Tree Pangolin destined for the bushmeat market.

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