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Wildlife and Life Celebrations

10,000 Birds

Name-calling and charges of agenda-promoting ensued. No buying invasive fish from the pet store and tossing them into a pond, where they will grow into behemoths and devour the native species. It’s over; the balloons all went up between 4:15 and 4:30 on a Monday. No one knows how many.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

10,000 Birds

The lack of people does not mean we have any less extinct or threatened bird species than other countries. European settlement in Australia has been the cause of the decline of a variety of bird species and if not directly, then indirectly by the introduction of other species that have been the cause of their decline.

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