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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy. Serbia has a right-centre Government that for years avoided protecting any of the already proposed areas, heavily pushing the development at whatever cost and miserably failing the environment. mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more! On her own, two months ago, she took down a big, old and experienced Indian Boar , who already had some old tiger claw scars. We have met the daughters of Telia, the Tigress of the Lake.

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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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