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Big Cat Week 2012 Starts Sunday!

4 The Love Of Animals

9, 2012, at 8 p.m. These big cats are a species under constant threat from poachers and farmers who fear that the leopards are attacking their livestock. But experts can’t protect them without knowing more about them. Snow Leopard of Afghanistan. Sunday, Dec.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

However very few birders ever venture to areas off this well-beaten track, so with this in mind, I decided to explore a fascinating but ornithologically little known corner of Ethiopia in January 2012, to see what surprises awaited me.

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Endangered Species Act: Delisting the Black-capped Vireo?

10,000 Birds

In 2012, a petition to delist was filed by ranching and agriculture groups and conservative legal organizations. Our analysis indicates the known threats at the time of listing, habitat loss through land use changes, livestock grazing, and vegetation succession, and brown-headed cowbird parasitism, are reduced or adequately managed.