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Guest Post: Foreclosures Threaten Pets As Well As People

4 The Love Of Animals

Foreclosures Threaten Pets As Well As People. And limited public funding means that shelters have to rely on public donations to bear the brunt of rising costs for care and housing of these animals. Guest Post: Foreclosures Threaten Pets As Well As People originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on May 15, 2010.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

The primary reasons for the decline of macaws and parrots are many but habitat loss due to logging; clear cutting for crops and cattle ranching; and capture for the pet trade rank among the most threatening. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

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