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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

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The Guan had never been seen in the wild after Polish Naturalist Wladyslaw Taczanowski collected one individual in 1876. Nineteenth and early twentieth century naturalists collected birds on long and arduous exploratory expeditions in the New World. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection.

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Who Wants To See a Greater Prairie Chicken?

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His work is the foundation of the Macaulay Library video collection. The human world is on the move to where the money is. Help us get an important part of the funding required by visiting our Indiegogo Campaign. Tim’s involvement with birds began very early and has led him to his passion for conservation through television. “No

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Organizations Putting Animals First

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Through heart-wrenching rescues, informative awareness campaigns and much more, they are striving to make a difference in the world for those that don’t have a voice. Formed in 2007, this organization seeks to promote the humane treatment of animals by promoting effective animal sanctuary management.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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It is threatened by habitat degradation as a result of the human exploitation of natural resources in the taiga and lower tundra regions of its breeding range, and by lake drainage for irrigation and hydroelectric power production (Armenia).” We, humans, seem to be quite hostile neighbours to other life forms around us.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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This mass avian exploitation, amazing and repugnant, ultimately met its end through separate campaigns in the United States and Great Britain, each led by women, mostly upper-middle class women. Both campaigns led to the establishment of national, influential conservation organizations–National Audubon Society in the U.S.

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

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There had been a collective sign of relief at Barack Obama’s election in the U.S., One is Lanny Davis, an influential lobbyist who was a personal lawyer for President Bill Clinton and also campaigned for Hillary. It did not take much imagination to envision the turmoil sweeping through every Latin American capital. 1) DemocracyNow!

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