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Appeal Denied for Six Activists Convicted Under AEPA

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Six members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty were convicted at a 2006 trial in New Jersey of conspiracy to violate the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act. The law, since revised, aimed to protect animal research laboratories from illegal, sometimes violent protests. From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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COMMENTS ON COLLECTING BIRDS: A Reply

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The start was there to try and break the warm fuzzies people have about wildlife biologists, people generally well regarded for doing badly paid work trying to help photogenic animals in the wild. The relationship between this bird and other animals and plants?” Studying a wild animal is a multi-disciplinary exercise.

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Have You Considered Keeping Goats as Pets?

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Cats and dogs are the most popular pets, along with hamsters, rabbits and guinea pigs also being amongst the favourites. Goats are intelligent and inquisitive animals with lots of character and energy. It’s important to provide goats with a shelter to protect them from the elements. Have you considered keeping goats as pets?

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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He is a writer and communicator whose day jobs have taken him to six continents and more than 25 countries, including Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Kenya, and Cameroon. Another, hands against the animal’s vast side, said… March On Into Spring – I and The Bird #146 Mar 17th, 2011 at 12:37 am [.] The proposal from U.S.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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Although this park was logged in the past, as a national park it is one of the few forests in Ghana that is really protected. . Most importantly the Upper Guinea forests, one of Africa’s two major rainforest regions (the other being the far more extensive Lower Guinea forests of the Congo basin and surrounding areas).

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