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Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review

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A prime example is the 1958 Chinese campaign to eliminate sparrows, considered pests because they fed on grain. As Moss shows, this “Great Sparrow Campaign” was based on nothing more than the “scientific illiteracy and unbridled power” of one man, Mao Zedong. Millions of Chinese died in the ensuing famine. What claptrap.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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They are under very heavy hunting pressure in Serbia and after 15 years of campaign , are finally off the shooting list. They do breed in the Balkans, in Montenegro and Greece where I observed them, as well as in Bulgaria and Romania. But, lacking the law enforcement in the field, nothing has really changed.

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