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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

10,000 Birds

If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. Animal Help Now is the first nationwide response system for wildlife emergencies.

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

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The next five chapters focus more specifically on Galápagos creatures: huge tortoises; iguanas; birds (two chapters–one on seabirds and coastal birds, another on land birds, including the famous finches); water creatures–sea lions, crabs, fish, sea turtles, whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

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February 27, 2012 Reports of large marine animal strandings in the Gulf of Mexico continue to pile up in the first two months of 2012. Officials reported 48 marine mammals, mostly dolphins, and 87 dead sea turtles during the first two months alone. BP officials reacted to this alarming news by demanding that it be kept secret.

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