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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

.” But also: “Delisted,” “Growing Up,” “Second Chances,” “No Tags.” A lot of this material is in her earlier book, Condors in Canyon Country, published by the Grand Canyon Association in 2007, now out-of-print (though available used).

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New Book Looks at Humanity's Role in the Next Extinction

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Another book I want to read! Nevertheless the subject of eradicated species has become publishing hot property after a bidding battle in the US saw Henry Holt, a publisher, beat its rivals to buy The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert last week. I'm a glutton for depressing punishment!

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"Thin Green Line" Surveys Wildlife Crime in UK

Critter News

Here's another book I'll need to add to my list. Tags: wildlife crime UK books endangered species.

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Another Critical Article Directed at CITES

Critter News

I forwarded an article about this to my book club members. Tags: CITES united nations marine animals Japan endangered species. Hopefully, regular citizens will read this and not just other activists. (I Knowing them, I bet they were hoping for fish and chips instead!).

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Animal Investigators (giveaway)

4 The Love Of Animals

We got a chance to review an amazing book recently! Animal Investigators: How the World’s First Wildlife Forensics Lab Is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species is an interesting read about the world’s first wildlife forensics lab. The book looks at three criminal cases involving wildlife.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

This book has so many great quotes that I'm going to have to write a couple of posts about them. Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Any animal threatened with a gun or arrow is endangered.

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

because, if the film rights to this book have not been snapped up yet, Hollywood is making a huge mistake) (c) Will I ever see a Blakiston’s Fish Owl? This book is the story of his search for his grail and what he does with it and why, a quest that took place from 2005 to 2010 in the Russian province of Primorye.

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