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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

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Within its Belt and Road Initiative, China asked for this location for the new harbour. In other words, Serbia will take an expensive Chinese credit in order to hire a Chinese company and their labour (hence, the Chinese funding goes back to China) to build a harbour that will immediately be given to the Chinese concessionaire.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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It seems this species is shy even by pitta standards – the HBW calls it a “very shy and secretive pitta, easily overlooked” and says that it is “very rare in China (S. Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). of catching extremely small fish.

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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

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" Dog Days in China " is a small piece with no gruesome slideshow. Do they suffer any more or less in death? My bout of anguish began a few weeks back on a wintry night in central China, in the restless megalopolis of Chongqing. Or pig, or duck, or fish. But I’m happy China eats dog."

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Collaborative List – November 2019

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The Management are still in Africa, suffering the buffering that comes with remoteness. They ranged across 10 countries (Costa Rica, USA, UK, India, Australia, China, Brazil, Mexico, Serbia and Uganda). African Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus vocifer. Sakule fish farm (Jer Lake). Sakule fish farm (Jer Lake).

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Vulture Socialism

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In any case, the vultures do not seem to have a subscription of Birds of the World, having chosen a wintering location that is well outside the published range map (though admittedly it is mentioned that the vulture winters in Eastern China in very small numbers – three to be exact in the case of Chongming Island). Or just dead ducks?

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