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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1 mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5 In August 2016, the newly planned Chinese Belt and Road harbour development inside the most valuable 9 km2 / 3.5 mi2 of the proposed reserve was announced.

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African Pythons Targeted for Removal

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The analysis of Python stomach contents indicates that they eat mammals, as small as mice, and as large as a fully grown deer. Pythons have been observed swallowing birds and mammals, and coiled up resting in trees where wading birds were actively nesting.

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What is the National Bird of Aruba?

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The Aruban Burrowing Owl hunts primarily from the ground, hopping and running after lizards, insects, and small mammals. As a result, the Aruba Birdlife Conservation Foundation began a campaign to make the Burrowing Owl the country’s national bird , which was officially named in 2012.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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Lost Animals is a book about what was lost and witnesses to the loss—how the bird or mammal was viewed, often for the last time, through the lens of a camera. And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. more than there really was to see!” (p.

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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

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as well as a rare mammal, the California fisher. RATS persuades local governments to pass anti-poison resolutions using facts, figures, photos, and a Claymation video ( “Raptor Blues” ) made by high school student Ian Timothy (which, Lisa observes, often makes people ‘get it’ far faster than the written word).

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Listen Today on WALO Radio

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Today, March 30th, at 3:00 East Coast time, Susan Soltero of Puerto Rico will interview me live on the air at WALO Radio about Responsible Policies for Animals' 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry! Ruminants are four-footed, hoofed, even-toed, cud-chewing mammals with four stomachs.

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SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer, Part Deux

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The advocacy component of old speciesism isn't the campaign to end that exploitation, however. Instead, it is the campaign to modify it. intelligence, having a sense of past and future, having social ties, being a mammal or a bird). intelligence, having a sense of past and future, having social ties, being a mammal or a bird).