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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.

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Lawrence University associate professor Dr. Susan Willson, who led a field study involving pet cats in 2013 and 2014. All these tender, tormented people, spending years crying crocodile tears about maimed and butchered birds, when all they had to do was close the door and keep their lethal property inside. “My

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Is my Rhino Still Alive?

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The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said the figures showed a 21% increase in poaching from 2013, topping that year’s total by 195. Fast-forward to the present murky sky and the 1,215 rhino butchered last year. On average, over 100 rhinos were illegally killed each month.

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I Remember Elephants

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Nevertheless, only the most important news I did follow, those about the decision-making process on future sales of elephants and their ivory at a global wildlife summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first such meeting since 2013. I say they were butchered, face-off. In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes.

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