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Marine Life Top of CITES Meeting Agenda

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The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or Cites that opened in the Qatari capital on Saturday will be discussing 42 proposals during the next two weeks. On its agenda is Monaco's proposal to have a complete ban on the international commercial trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna.

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

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Yet, the environmental problems are pulling people together, uniting the people with very different political views with the simplest of all agendas: “We want to breathe clean air, we want clean tap water.” It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1 mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5

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Birding or Birdwatching? A Backyard Realization

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With forest on two sides and the expansive Eglin Air Force Base reservation just beyond, avian species have a host of hiding and eating opportunities. Nothing was on my agenda for that afternoon. On that trip, we actively sought new species, moving from one place to another with drive and determination. In my backyard?

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Guide to birding the Forgotten Road in the Djerdap National Park, Serbia

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And in order to evaluate its potential, my agenda was to spend whole two days in the park and to produce the best possible evaluation based on that visit. Other species include Grey Wagtail and Marsh Tit. is known as the northernmost range of holly ( Ilex aquifolium ), a relict evergreen species, in Serbia and the only site in Djerdap.

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Suburban Roadrunners of Southern Missouri

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There’s no species of bird more associated with the North American desert than Greater Roadrunner. But Warner Brothers cartoons aside, Greater Roadrunner is a much more adaptable species that we give it credit for. But Warner Brothers cartoons aside, Greater Roadrunner is a much more adaptable species that we give it credit for.

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The Pacific Wren of the San Francisco Botanical Garden

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Nest-building must have been on their agenda, for they hopped this way and that with delicate moss bits hanging from their tiny beaks. It’s no surprise we confused Winter and Pacific Wrens; until 2010, they were considered the same species! The bird’s song was lovely, but we wanted to actually see the wren as well.

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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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They would care about land-use decisions involving urban sprawl, agriculture, transportation, waste disposal, pollution, deforestation, desertification, invasive species, climate change, and even population control. They would know the local streams, lakes, and marshes.

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