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FEBRUARY 12, 2010
I wish we could stop killing animals for reasons related to killing humans. Some 119 pigs were used in the research at the Government's military research laboratory Porton Down, near Salisbury, between 2006 and 2009. He said 25 pigs were used in 2006, 19 in 2007, 40 in 2008, and 35 in 2009. From the BBC News.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2011
My last encounter with a Hooded Crow was in May of 2009 in the Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan. Prior to that trip to Kazakhstan the only other time I had seen Hooded Crows was in Germany in 2007, when my best looks at a Hooded Crow were along the shore of the Baltic Sea.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2015
In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months. Earlier, a large number of villagers were being killed by tigers: 11 in 2006, 13 in 2007 and more than 26 during 2008.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2013
This time they appear more relaxed, but nervousness might be a better politics: in 2007, poachers killed only 13 rhinos in South Africa, but in 2008 already 83, in 2009 – 122, in 2010 – 333, in 2011 – 448 and in 2012 a staggering 668! If such a trend continues, we will lose these animals for good!
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2012
An adult (left) and subadult (right) White-backed Vulture with full crops after feeding on the remains of a Lion kill, Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley. Between 2007 and 2009 the population of the Liben Lark decreased 40% and the territory it occupied contracted 38%.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2018
301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Wattled Jacana – Jacana jacana. Costanera Sur, Promenade. 03 Apr 2018. Least Tern – Sternula antillarum. 03 Apr 2018. Purple Martin – Progne subis. 03 Apr 2018. 03 Apr 2018.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2018
301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Wattled Jacana – Jacana jacana. Costanera Sur, Promenade. 03 Apr 2018. Least Tern – Sternula antillarum. 03 Apr 2018. Purple Martin – Progne subis. 03 Apr 2018. 03 Apr 2018.
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