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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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Last March (2020), only a few days before the famous virus has reached Serbia, the Ministry of Construction and Traffic stated: “No, we gave up on the Beljarica locality, the harbour will be built somewhere farther upstream.” Golden Jackals in Beljarica. Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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More dramatically memorable is Dunn’s experience in Bolivia, where he hoped to travel to Chalalan Lodge, an eco-lodge run by the local indigenous population, but ends up facing the 2019 election protests with blockades and a threat of violence at every road leaving the city. Lovette (2020). Billerman, and I.J. Billerman, B.