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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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They range from the successful eradication of feral cats from Marion Island (hear that, Corey?) to the ongoing conservation of breeding Lesser Flamingos at Kimberley’s Kamfers Dam to the Albatross Task Force, which works with fishermen to find solutions to seabird bycatch (birds caught in fishermen’s nets).

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4 Lions are dead: Sad and all, but does it actually matter?

10,000 Birds

Well, Copenhagen Zoo is back in the news; a few weeks after killing a giraffe and feeding it to some lions, it went and killed some of those same lions. There was a story this morning that did make my blood freeze, and it had nothing to do with four big cats biting the bullet. Losing a few non-breeding lions in zoos a great deal less.

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