10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Nearly 2,500 square miles of the wildest sections of the Omo Valley are protected in the almost contiguous Omo National Park on the river’s west bank (Ethiopia’s largest park) and Mago National Park on the east bank. Just after dawn we came across our first Mursi tribesmen, two herdboys driving their cattle to market in Jinka.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Game 241

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 8, 2010

They offered him hand-outs and cared enough about him, not to call Animal Control and risk having him picked up and sent to a shelter where his fate would be doomed. The boy was wounded by his loss, just as the homeless dog was wounded when his owner died. I don’t need a leash, he stays right next to me,” Cody says.

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Dogs Homelessness Stray Dog Wounded 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Early starts are the rule when monitoring endagered species in Mkuze Game Reserve, in South Africa, but there’s a particular urgency to this morning’s start. Pippa called the park ranger in charge of animals. Like other social animals, his family connections were keeping him alive, as his family was feeding him.

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Wolves Lions Dogs Vet 189

Animal Person

DECEMBER 17, 2009

I mistakenly believed that geography would solve any problems I had: that once positioned where all of nature is respected, and people are working toward the common goal of protecting the environment, I would be in that elusive place we spend our lives searching for—home. He was groaning and whimpering, and his eyes spoke of grave injustice.

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Bears Vermont Laws Wounded 100