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Birding Portal, Arizona

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We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. The post Birding Portal, Arizona appeared first on 10,000 Birds. 10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations.

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Will Arizona Exempt Animal Testing from Cruelty Laws?

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This is all about making the stupid state friendly to the biotech industry. Tags: animal research biotech arizona. Supposedly people either 1) believe the State has no place overseeing labs (USDA does that) and 2) bioscience is already very well-regulated. They get a huge tax break?

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of August 2012?

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One wonders how birding tour leaders and industry reps manage to embrace life on the road. You’ll find me in the area of Tucson, Arizona with a number of other people you probably know. So tell me… have you been traveling too much, too little, or just enough this summer?

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Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?

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Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. Similar limits were approved last year in Michigan and less sweeping restrictions have been adopted in Florida, Arizona and other states.

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Update on Proposition 2 in CA

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Gregory is the president and CEO of UEP, an industry trade group. Throughout UEP’s annual meeting speakers cautioned that Prop 2’s passage would be a major blow to the industry. The ballot initiative was the dominating topic of the meeting, where it was said that up to $50 million will be needed to successfully fight it.

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Tell Congress To Fully Fund The Land And Water Conservation Fund

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As a result, there is a substantial backlog of federal land acquisition needs estimated at more than $30 billion—including places vulnerable to development such as the Florida Everglades, Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, Civil War battlefields in Virginia and other precious places around the country.

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Wrapping Up Birding Tourism February

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We did this to help our favorite industry come back, to some small degree, from the ravages of COVID. We here at 10,000 Birds dedicated the month of February to highlighting a variety of birding tourism companies, destinations, and guides. It was a fun month with posts from places as varied as Greece and Uganda, Costa Rica and India.