10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2024

Last week, I returned to Morelia, Mexico, my home for the past 30 years, from twelve days in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I spent my childhood and teenage years. Of coure, some of these species can be seen in both places because they migrate from up north to central Mexico. But those are surprisingly few. Please let it be so.

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San Francisco California Mexico Advocacy 137

Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The long-running dispute between the US and Mexico over Washington’s ‘dolphin safe’ labelling practice for tuna products is likely to see a WTO appeal, after the two parties together asked for an extension of the appeals deadline. From the Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest.

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Dolphins Mexico Advocacy Animal Welfare 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

” So, it is established: this is a film about migrant birds and the people who work to protect them in south Texas and northern Mexico. Birders is directed by Otilia Portillo Padua of Mexico, and was funded by a grant from the Sundance Institute. ” and then adds, “The border wall is no barrier to birds.”

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Advocacy Mexico United States Texas 267

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

Schulman The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 (MBTA) is the legislative implementation of the Migratory Bird Treaty negotiated with Great Britain, on behalf of Canada, in 1916 (subsequent treaties with Mexico, Japan, and Russia have been incorporated into the Act). I think birders will enjoy reading this political history of the MBTA.

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Connecticut Washington Legislation Hunting 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

Johnson is not a birder or a naturalist; he was fly fishing to get his mind off the stress of working on the List Project, an advocacy organization he founded to aid Iraqis who had helped the U.S. government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand).

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 103