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Birding Beljarica in August

10,000 Birds

I started the campaign for the protection of Beljarica, raising public awareness and collecting more than 10,000 petition signatures, not only because of its Eurasian Otters , White-tailed Eagles , Black Storks , Icterine and Eastern Olivaceous Warblers , etc., but because this large spillway protects the city from flooding.

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Protecting the Hyacinth Macaw and the Cerrado

10,000 Birds

Mating pairs are faithful for life and share the tasks of raising the young. Check out the World Wildlife Fund’s creative campaign to save the Cerrado. You might also want to see how the World Parrot Trust works to protect parrots in the wild. The Hyacinth Macaw doesn’t start a family until it is seven years old.

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Potential Efficiency Improvements

10,000 Birds

Supporting local conservation organizations and participating in citizen science initiatives allows us to contribute to the protection of Shanghai’s bird species and their habitats. Conservation projects, such as habitat restoration and awareness campaigns, aim to create a sustainable future for the avian inhabitants of the city.

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Should the Military Force Protect the Environment?

Critter News

Thought-provoking article in the Boston Globe.some green thinkers are now coming to a surprising conclusion: In exceptional circumstances, they say, the only effective way to protect the environment may be at the barrel of a gun. Already, some conservation campaigns have taken on martial aspects.

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Quash the Squash

4 The Love Of Animals

The RSPCA are trying to raise awareness of its urgent campaign to protect the welfare of UK meat chickens. If you live in the UK, please urge Jim Fitzpatrick, Minister for Animal Welfare, to make the right choice for UK chickens and quash the squash, by sending an email via our campaign website at Quash the Squash.

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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

10,000 Birds

By the early 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was aware that poison control centers were reporting 12,000 to 15,000 calls annually regarding children under the age of 6 ingesting rat poison, and rodenticides were documented as causing large numbers of secondary poisoning in wildlife.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

10,000 Birds

The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. I’m extremely grateful to Paul for taking the initiative in raising awareness of this NWR campaign.

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