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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. Take Hawaii, for example.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

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Consider some of the victories: On November 5th, 2002, more than two and a half million Floridians voted "Yes" on Amendment 10 to amend the state constitution and prohibit the use of gestation crates , narrow metal cages where breeding pigs are kept for most of their lives. News flash: Slaughtering horses does not promote their welfare.

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KwaZulu-Natal

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At first the Zulu King Dingaan gained the upper hand by slaughtering a large contingent of Boers (including their leaders Piet Retief and Gert Maritz) but the infamous Battle of Blood River in 1838 lead to a division of the territory between what was later known as Natal to the south and Zululand to the north. Image by Hugh Chittenden.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

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Here are a few examples: The Ostrich Communal Nesting System. Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary. Each of these ‘families’ consists of a single mating pair and 1-5 ‘helpers’ who assist in raising the young. Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

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The chapter on Martha, for example, just shows a close-up of her stuff body–not the whole body, the torso and tail–against an almost-black background. Or the destruction of the forests, food source and breeding grounds. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. Ask the proposing states to follow Nebraska’s example, to let them, and their big, desperately imperiled white cousins, alone. There are 400 whooping cranes left in the wild, 100 of them in the eastern population. Thank you for your efforts.

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