10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2015
On average, over 100 rhinos were illegally killed each month. The annual number of rhino poached in South Africa last year rose to 1,215, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa told a media briefing in Pretoria two weeks ago. Molewa added that so far this year 49 rhino had been killed countrywide.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
The Great Elephant Census found that populations of Savanna Elephants Loxodonta africana have fallen by 30% between 2007 and 2014 (around 144,000 animals poached or population shrunk at a rate of 8% a year, a level higher than their reproduction rate; source https://peerj.com/articles/2354.pdf
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
One would think that a bird named Grey Butcherbird is a shrike or at least related to shrikes (which are commonly called butcherbirds), but one would be wrong, as Duncan already explained in a 2014 post for 10,000 Birds. It is probably a rumor that writing a post about Australia and not mentioning Koalas is illegal, but why take the risk?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2015
Allow me to take you back in time, to November 2014. And that flight is illegal because EU legislation does not allow export of game meat from Serbia to EU. Unfortunately, this meeting was not about their protection, but about the lack of it! The Turtle Dove is not a trophy animal. No one is going to stuff it and put on a mantlepiece.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2022
But every photo is clearly here for a reason, whether to show juvenile plumage or large egg clutches or illegal trapping (many of the images in the Challenges and Conservation chapter are from CABS, the Committee Against Bird Slaughter).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2019
When I came here for the first time in 2014, I stayed at the Limneo B&B in the Chrisochorafa Village and met its owner, Nikos Gallios. Nikos managed to show us the incubating Cattle Egrets, of which only 2 or 3 pairs breed in this enormous heronry, counting up to 9000 pairs back in 2014. What should I expect?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2017
The American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO) recently filed a lawsuit against the federal government arguing that a planned wind turbine near the famed birding hotspot of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge is illegal. The lawsuit was filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C.
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