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A Fierce Cartoon Bird: Steller’s Sea Eagle on Hokkaido

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Another danger to the species comes from lead poisoning as they eat the carcasses of deer killed by hunters ( source ). Finally, there is an interesting paper trying to estimate the economic value of a Steller’s Sea Eagle – in this case, a vagrant showing up in North America.

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Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer

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Thus the decision was made to kill 3,600 Barreds, and it’s hard to fault the inescapable logic of doing so, as one Audubon Society director expressed it: On the one hand, killing thousands of owls is completely unacceptable. Other animal control issues that involve mass killing make for easier decisions, according to Peter P.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” One is defined as catching or killing and the other as keeping from injury. Of course, by now most people know they have been slaughtered by hunters for their ivory. A newly created U.S.

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