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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia

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The cargo was meant to be sold as delicacies to restaurants in Italy. More campaign photos at the FB page of the BPSSS/BirdLife Serbia). But by then, all surviving Turtle Doves are already in Africa, and those less fortunate await in deep freezers for their final flight to Italy. Left: David Lindo, a.k.a. What happened next?

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De arte venandi cum avibus: San Martino Siir (2015) – Aglianico del Vulture DOC

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At the time, this amounted to heresy and resulted in the suppression of his writings by religious authorities for centuries (though his antipapal campaigns probably had something to do with that, as well). Aglianico vines are still grown in southern Italy today, particularly in area around Mount Vulture, an extinct volcano in Basilicata.

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