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Where America dreams of/goes birding?

10,000 Birds

Ecuador or Botswana, respectively). Yet, the fact that tiny Panama is as popular as huge Brazil, with twice as many bird species, speaks volume for Brazil’s stage of ecotourism development. In the end, there were more than 40 destinations listed, most of them countries, and some of them smaller regions within large countries (e.g.

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China Gets to Buy Elephant Ivory

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The UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in Geneva voted in favour of China becoming a licensed importer. It will allow China to bid for more than 100 tonnes of ivory stockpiled in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe through culling and natural deaths.

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