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Why I write for 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

Sometime back in 2018, I started sharing some of my photos by e-mail with my sister and aunt. I can’t really blame the farmers, even though much of the expansion of avocado orchards is the product of illegal slash-and-burn practices (as in the photo below, which I took just last week). It’s all about the avocados.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

10,000 Birds

And unlike the protection of cormorants, which was perceived as a problem, protection of pelicans was welcomed by the local communities. Asian water buffaloes were brought to Greece by Ottoman Turks centuries ago and by now, they have developed into a separate race, the Greek buffalo, which is protected as an old domestic breed.

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