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Whales in danger.

4 The Love Of Animals

The plan can mean not only reversing the current ban on whale hunting by Norway, Iceland, and Japan for the next ten years, but will allow whaling in the internationally recognized whale sanctuary around Antarctica. originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on May 11, 2010. Whales in danger.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556. Boehrer, Bruce, Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010., Diffusion to other european countries subsequently was very rapid.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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I did not see any lifers whatsoever in 2016, making it my first lifer-free year since around 2010. I was quite shocked to learn that my last Northern Gannets were seen in Norway waaaaay back in 1992, some 15 years ago!

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