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Binocular snobbery

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Many years ago I interviewed Barbara Young, then the newly recruited chief executive of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), for an article for The Daily Telegraph. I was one of a small group of journalists, each of whom was presented with the latest Dialyt 10×40 inscribed with our initials.

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

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The piece describes why this corner of the world often has an attitude toward indiscriminate hunting that ranges from laissez-faire to Wild West, and also the toll that the ensuing slaughter takes on populations of birds that are protected in their northern European summer homes. Plentovich, courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). **And

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation. and the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921 in Great Britain). Botibol” (p.

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

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Earlier in the year Chiquita Brands International Inc. The school is best known for producing Latin American officers who have committed major human rights abuses, including military coups. (5) And that the US and its new president were not standing up for democracy. 3) George W.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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In 1903, the distinguished Elliott Coues declared , “This is a definite and perfectly natural group, which will be immediately recognized by the foregoing characters, one of which, complete webbing of hallux, is not elsewhere observed among birds.&# Wicked, right? He could not say the same today. The proposal from U.S.

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Britain’s Dragonflies & Britain’s Butterflies: A Review of Two Field Guides

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A right-hand sidebar encapsulates basic facts–common or scarce, widespread or endangered, overall length and hindwing length, where to look, observation tips, look-alikes (just a list). He is a trustee of the British Dragonfly Society and convenes its Dragonfly Conservation Group.

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