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I Remember Elephants

10,000 Birds

How much time did you need to read this blog? Will the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) conference delegates up-list them to Appendix I of the Convention, forbidding any future sale over international borders? Perhaps 15 minutes? Another ellie is being killed as you read this line.

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

10,000 Birds

But if we want to continue to throw a monkey-wrench into this all too cut and dried scenario, there’s also the fact that the Old World vultures had a foothold in North America up until the Neogene about 2.5 Thailand’s Adopt a Vulture Program – YC Wee, Bird Ecology Study Group. millions years ago.