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Good news for the Wood Stork

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Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). are considered a distinct population segment, which is protected by the ESA and the Migratory Bird Treaty act. On June 25, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the U.S.

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Flock to Marion

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This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013.

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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomes a baby white rhinoceros!

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Kisiri, Tambo and another female white rhino were airlifted from Kruger National Park in South Africa in 2001 through the efforts of the International Rhino Foundation (IRF), a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of rhinos. and around the world, including $194,000 USD grants to rhino conservation projects.

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Week 21: Our last week in Scotland

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Re-introduction of the Red Kites in southern Scotland was started in 2003 with 40 birds released, for the most part in secret. Tomorrow morning we will head on down to England, and the township of Hull, to visit the Spurn Wildlife Reserve. The Bellymac Farm turned out to be the location that the birds choose to gather in.

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Cute of the day: Baby White Rhino!

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Mlelani, Tambo and another female white rhino were airlifted from Kruger National Park in South Africa in 2001 through the efforts of the International Rhino Foundation (IRF), a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of rhinos. Since its inception, the Fund has granted $5 million to more than 350 projects in the U.S.

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

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.* So, it’s a good thing that Ediciones Nuevos Mundo, the publishing arm of The Friendship Association, published Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Comprehensive Guide by Nils Navarro, Cuban wildlife artist and naturalist , earlier this year. Press in 2003. and Cuba.). Raffaele, James, Wiley, Orlando H. Garrido, et al.,

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

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The adults move to flocks, there may be two or three of them, that hang out mostly far off shore in the larger part of the lake, abandoning their embayments or otherwise protected areas. In any event, by mid summer or so, the babies are not so small and more or less do OK on their own and hang around the nest. Then one day they are gone.

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