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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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Above is a buck with antlers in velvet , while the animal below has clean antlers A Muntjac on the run. England’s Muntjac are all descended from a small number of animals released by the 11th Duke of Bedford in his park at Woburn, in Bedfordshire, in the early years of the 20th century.

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EU Sends Inspectors to Portugal for Farm Animal Welfare

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The inspectors found nothing wrong, but at least they responded to the issues raised by Animal Angels, based in Germany. My 2010 resolution is to try and track animal rights issues in the homelands of Spain and Portugal. Spain is much more advanced than Portugal in this area, but both need improvement (as do we all.).

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Royal Decree Issued in Spain Over Animal Welfare

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But some industry experts doubt Spain, a nation which has an unemployment rate above 20% and a stagnant economy, can afford to pay out €300m to farmers. Others have suggested that the amount of money allocated would only be enough to assist half the Spanish egg industry to convert.

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"Educate, Investigate, Liberate"

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You may know Jose Valle of the International Organization for the Abolition of Animal Slavery, AnimalEquality. We are currently doing an investigation on pig farms in Spain, including intensive and extensive/free-range farms (tho extensive ones are scarce since intensive ones are the majority in the industry).

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Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016)

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Following the fall of the Visigothic kingdom in Portugal and Spain after Islamic conquest in the 8 th century, falconry would only became a more firmly fixed Iberian tradition in the hands of the Umayyad rulers of Al-Andalus. A falconry scene from the Severa Bible, a Sephardic bible from early 14th-century Spain.

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Birding the Bear Mountain of Serbia

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Usually, maize is on the menu, only occasionally carrion or dead trout from a nearby fish farm. Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus. We are in the Tara Mountain in western Serbia, ranging from 1,000-1,500 m / 3,000-5,000 ft above sea level.

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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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They feed on insects stirred up by the herds, at times sitting on the animal itself picking off ticks and other insects. The species spread north to the Mediterranean, reaching parts of Spain and southern Europe, spread along the Atlantic coast of France and, at times, even reaching Britain and Ireland.

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