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I Remember Elephants

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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 Protection Island, Washington

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I discovered that they nest on Protection Island, which is off the northeastern coast of the Olympic Peninsula, just west of Port Townsend, in the Juan de Fuca Strait near where it meets Puget Sound. Once the salmon started heading upstream the eagles would disperse and go after them. Protection Island and Mt.