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Big Cat Week 2012 Starts Sunday!

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Tune in Sunday to watch the first ever capture and release of an endangered snow leopard in Afghanistan! Snow Leopard of Afghanistan. Afghanistan, one of the most dangerous places on earth, is also home to a population of endangered and elusive snow leopards. But experts can’t protect them without knowing more about them.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Gaur Morning

10,000 Birds

The tropical dry deciduous jungle, or “jungle”, however you see it, covers almost 90% of 600 km2 (230 mi2) of this protected area. No, it originates in English, from where it entered Hindi and got a broader meaning… like a widened state of mind. Good to know. It is dominated by Burmese Teak , interspersed by thickets of Calcutta Bamboo.

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A Win-Lose Proposition for Farmers and Consumers

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But all of that aside, the bold solution is: Americans who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) would be the targeted consumers of the surplus (in addition to military food assistance programs in places like Afghanistan). "By And that's being done as a favor of sorts, a gift to them by the benevolent NASDA.

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Birding Napo, Guangxi, China – part 2

10,000 Birds

Originally, the gorget was a piece of armor that protected the throat or gorge. Apparently, he used his various army postings in Afghanistan, Burma and on the Andaman Islands to study local birds whenever his busy schedule governing or fighting the locals allowed it. Maybe the males all go to Guangxi in winter.

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