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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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But it wasn’t until he studied falconry’s appeal to centuries-old cultures–the Persians, English, Dutch, French, Chinese, Russians, and people of the Middle East–that Cade realized the sport of kings was slowly dying and would disappear along with the age-old mystique of a raptor returning to the human who trained her.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. The initial solution in New Zealand was to move species to islands where mammals hadn’t reached. Western Gull chick.

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The man who saved species

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It worked, and the translocated birds were soon breeding. Today the species is secure on a large number of islands and reserves. Both species had undergone massive declines since the arrival of humans and where in a perilous position in the 1970s. Don with Richard Henry, the venerable Kakapo that died last December.

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