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US Groups Fight to Save Polar Bear Hunts

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Supposedly, environmentalists and animal rights activists have "unfairly made the polar bear into 'the panda bear of North America.'" Here's the article from the Globe and Mail. Tags: canada blood sport polar bear hunting trophy hunting endangered species. insert crying baby picture here.)

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The Inuit Point of View on Polar Bears

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Here's an article in the Nunatsiaq News that talks about polar bear conservation from the Inuit point of view. The Inuit harvest, or hunt, polar bears in Canada. "In But not with polar bears." He said that a lot of Inuit feel betrayed by the animal rights movement, and by some biologists when it comes to polar bears.

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Jumping out of my “Beat” today

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Let me start off with being quite clear, there are no grizzly Bears on the Baja! All of which, was for one a one day shoot with the famed bears, as they dined on the fall salmon run. In addition to the Grizzly Bears , I was able to photograph Woodland Buffalo , squirrels, deer, Red Fox , and even a herd of Yaks.

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To Drill, or Not to Drill? That’s the Wrong Question.

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The Bears Ears National Monument (a protected public lands designation given to sitting presidents under the Antiquities Act) recently lost 1.1 So I sign petitions and write articles like this one. Bears Ears National Monument ACTION. And yet, it has begun. Horned Lark. Photo by © Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren.

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Prespa Lakes National Park, Greece: the largest Dalmatian Pelican colony in the world

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The forest grows on the new lakeshore and it, too, is a mere 15 years old, but already provides an important corridor for large mammals such as Roe Deer and even Brown Bears , which sometimes come down to feed on beans. Finally, find more ideas where to watch birds in Greece in my recent article, here. Maps and guides.

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Steve Best on The Left's Ignorance of Cognitive Ethology

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Related articles by Zemanta Rooks can use tools 'just like chimps' (guardian.co.uk). Mockingbirds bear a grudge against particular people (guardian.co.uk). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Language animal rights Culture Ecology Ethology speciesism The Left veganism. Check out the rest and let me know what you think.

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Pipits and the Sweet Smell of Seaweed

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I’ve no intention of offering a full ID article, most of the individuals you come across from November to the end of February are simply not assignable to race but these examples perhaps show in my view that some can be. Or These Blasts From The Past Reason To Become A Bird Watcher #13: Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

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