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I Remember Elephants

10,000 Birds

I say they were butchered, face-off. Yet, opposition to their full protection came from an unexpected side, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), whose Head of Delegation said: “These proposals would [not] have offered elephant populations any greater protection from the poachers. One may say so. And it gave me a hope.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

Meanwhile, on Chongming island, I rescued a Northern Shoveler which got caught in one of these evil, almost invisible strings that the farmers use to protect their fields from hungry birds. Pat Fish was the creative force behind a band called Jazz Butcher – he died in October last year. Did the bird thank me? Did it f*ck.

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