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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

Critter News

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.

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Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

10,000 Birds

I worked as a guide and on macaw projects in Tambopata in 2001 and 2002 and the diversity is simply astounding. The number of bird species that have been recorded from Puerto Maldondo to the Tambopata Research Center is around 620 species (all lowland elevations). The proposal from U.S.

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