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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

10,000 Birds

As Kaufman shows, however, to birds and bats, they can be death machines. Wind turbines have been proposed several times for areas close to the BSBO – one of the great bird flyways on the continent — and the Kaufmans ( and their colleagues ) have spent a great deal of time and energy campaigning against them. by Kenn Kaufman.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

This is quite a big deal for an island group that had no mammals save bats for millions of years. New Zealand has been the recipient of a higher than average number of introduced species, in particular a range of mammals from elk to mice. In New Zealand at least public opinion is generally behind 1080.