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The Danube Backwaters

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What I have always missed there and what I still miss is to experience presence of the European Beaver. The last beaver in the area was killed ten miles to the east – near Pancevo around the year 1900, but, reintroduced some dozen years ago, there are some 150 of them in the country nowadays. Nevertheless, Nagy was right.

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Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe by Lars-Henrik Olsen

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This is like Sibley calling his bird guide “The Sibley guide to Birds of Massachusetts and North America” The latter sounds silly, right? Examples are wolf, beaver, otter, domestic cat, wolverine, wild boar, elk (moose), and reindeer. So what is one to think of the former?

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing.

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