10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2024
Explaining the increase in the number of sightings is difficult, as the Siberian breeding population is declining. Stopping spring shooting and educating hunters about these endangered birds has helped reduce the pressure on the species, but many threats still remain.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2012
In addition to their homing tendency, breeding swallows are attracted to old nests. It is illegal for any person to take, possess, transport, sell, or purchase them or their parts, such as feathers, nests, or eggs, without a permit. Completed nests during this breeding season cannot be touched without a permit from the U.S.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2023
One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. To avoid quarrels about different education styles, each adult attends a separate chick after fledging (source: HBW). Other threats arise from illegal logging, hunting for bushmeat, and other body parts (feathers, beak, etc.)
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2011
Known breeding localities are now limited to only a few of the islands in the Caribbean including the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Turks and Caicos, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and Antigua/Barbuda. A recent focus has been on habitat preservation since wetlands in the Caribbean are a very scarce resource.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
a close childhood friend of Lendrum’s, Howard Waller, breeds falcons for Sheikh Butti bin Maktoum, a member of the Dubai royal family. Waller, who gave one interview to Hammer, adamantly denies any illegal connection to Lendrum, despite allegations made by Mullins.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2015
Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season. According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008. million hectares in 2007.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
Other wildlife-dependent recreation on national wildlife refuges includes wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation. The State of Louisiana has increased fines for illegal killing of bears. The Service’s report Banking on Nature shows that refuges pump $2.4
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