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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Osborn, a passionate field biologist who participates to the core of her being three re-introduction projects aimed at saving three very different, endangered species: Peregrine Falcon, Hawaiian Crow (‘Alala)*, and California Condor. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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The Service also proposes expanding hunting and sport fishing on the following refuges: California. The Sacramento River NWR was established 1989 by the authority provided under the Endangered Species Act, Emergency Wetlands Resources Act, and the Fish and Wildlife Act. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_5pt9OTLA. v=sk_5pt9OTLA.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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By way of an example take the Western Gulls that I studied on the Farallon Islands in California. The initial solution in New Zealand was to move species to islands where mammals hadn’t reached. Each year tens of thousands of these gulls go to the islands and each pair will lay three eggs.