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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

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From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning.

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The Great Bustard Search is On (1)

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Together with African Kori Bustard (which I observed on a camping trip in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve), this is the heaviest flying bird in the world. In breeding season grazing cattle may walk through the nest, breaking the eggs, while wild and domestic pigs may eat both eggs and chicks. m–8 ft 10 in). What treats do they face?

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Should is not a Solution

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My post last week where I defended game hunting as a conservation tool has, unaccountably, encountered a certain amount of push back. Who would have thought that a post defending hunting game in general would have not been universally acclaimed? And therein my quarrel with those that oppose game hunting in Africa.

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Africa’s endangered species

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A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley. An adult (left) and subadult (right) White-backed Vulture with full crops after feeding on the remains of a Lion kill, Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley. This plain used to be little affected by humans, being grazed by just a few cattle, goats and camels.

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Birding Shanghai in July 2022

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While I cannot claim to fully understand the topic, “The Impact of Deafness to the Survival of the Newborn Cells in the Brain of Juvenile White-rumped Munia, Lonchura striata “, the authors first deafened some White-rumped Munias via surgery and then killed them a few weeks later. but they do.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” One is defined as catching or killing and the other as keeping from injury. .” Why would any human being think that killing a Giraffe ( Giraffa ) is a good idea? But I digress.

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