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Use it or lose it?

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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. Conservation conservation science hunting logging' Is seeking to extract economic benefit out of nature a bad thing?

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

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Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. The recommendations will sound familiar to any birder or naturalist who wants to protect and improve her local patch: Immediately shut down cat feeding stations.

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Birding Shanghai in December 2023

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But I can assure you that just as many men, whose profound knowledge of the natural sciences is known to the world and who are by no means enemies of sensible innovations, also consider the path I have taken to be quite expedient. – ” This is followed by lengthy instructions on how to catch them by various means.

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