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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomes a baby white rhinoceros!

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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomes its seventh baby white rhino since 2004. Busch Gardens has celebrated a total of seventh white rhino births since October 2004. Since its inception in 2003, The SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund has granted $7 million USD to more than 500 projects in the U.S.

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Good news for the Wood Stork

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Since 2004, the three-year averages (2003 to 2012) for nesting pairs ranged from 7,086 to 10,147, all above the 6,000 three-year average identified in the 1997 recovery plan as the threshold to consider reclassifying the species to threatened status.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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of Texas Press, 2004). © 2003 text H. Lee Jones, © 2003 illustrations Dana Gardner E. The illustration by Dana Gardner for the 2003 Belize guide is more color blocked, less subtle, a totally different style. written by Richard Garrigues and illustrated by Robert Dean (Comstock, 2014) and Birds of Belize , written by H.

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Why Is the Federal Government Awarding Contracts to a Company That Was Involved in Smuggling Primates?

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They were denied contracts by HHS back in 2003 due to what the government said was an insufficient response for their RFP. Signed on 2004-04-15. Completion date: 2004-05-05. According to this website , Worldwide Primates has received $2,411,795.00 from the Dept. of Defense since 2000. Signed on 2005-08-12. Taking place in MT.

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The return of the Long-tailed Finch

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In 2003 we rarely saw Long-tailed Finches at all in our garden and in 2004 we only saw them once in October. There had been no obvious change in the local environment, but with our weekly records for our garden we have seen many changes over the years.

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Hard for Russian Veterinarians to Use Anesthesia Due to Russian Drug Laws

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Ketamine has long been used for operating on animals throughout the world, but when it came in vogue as a party drug in the late 1990s, Russia's response was to ban the substance entirely in 2003. It was technically legalized but in reality rejected.

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Cute of the day: Baby White Rhino!

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The October 2004 birth of Mlaleni and Tambo’s first calf, Malaika, marked the first white rhino birth in the adventure park’s history. The Fund was created in 2003 by the Anheuser-Busch Adventure Parks and is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable foundation dedicated to supporting environmental and wildlife conservation initiatives.