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Use it or lose it?

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I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. A traditionally managed fishery in the Cook Islands, or a the carefully managed collection of shearwater chicks in New Zealand by the Maori. Is seeking to extract economic benefit out of nature a bad thing? Unsustainable hunting leads to extinction.

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Shadows of Africa

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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!

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Make This the Year You Do Right by Animals

Animal Ethics

Now that 2008 has arrived, I'd like once again to encourage new and old readers alike to make this the year that they stop supporting animal cruelty in all of its forms. Since the New Year's resolutions you have made for 2008 are your resolutions, I assume that you would actually like to succeed in keeping them. How and by when?

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008. Some stats include the fact that over three million rural Ghanaians depend on forests for survival, and about 69% of all urban households use charcoal for cooking and heating. million hectares in 2007.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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Cook Strait Ferry (Open Ocean Section). Cook Strait Ferry (Open Ocean Section). Cook Strait Ferry (Open Ocean Section). Cook Strait Ferry (Open Ocean Section). Cook Strait Ferry (Open Ocean Section). Little Penguin – Eudyptula minor. Motuara Island. 25 Mar 2016. Jackass Penguin – Spheniscus demersus.

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Combined Beats’ List – August

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Cook Strait Ferry (Open Ocean Section). Cook Strait Ferry (Open Ocean Section). Cook Strait Ferry (Open Ocean Section). Cook Strait Ferry (Open Ocean Section). Cook Strait Ferry (Open Ocean Section). Little Penguin – Eudyptula minor. Motuara Island. 25 Mar 2016. Jackass Penguin – Spheniscus demersus.

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