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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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On another trip, this time to Slovakia, I heard wolves howling, a wonderfully spine-tingling sound. No, not an Arctic Fox, but a Red Fox in Arctic Finland I may not have seen many wolves, but I have seen lots of foxes (or what I should perhaps call red foxes). At the time we were looking, without success, for White-backed Woodpeckers.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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The Amur Leopard ( Panthera pardus orientalis – above) is just one majestic animal on the Critically Endangered (CR) list with less than 100 individuals in the wild due to hunting for its fur. The persecution of these apex predators, especially wolves , is rampant among some hunters and cattle ranchers. But I digress.

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