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You Gotta Fight When You Think it’s the Right Thing to Do

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Strictly speaking, they were always forbidden for driving, but there is a difference between me, driving along the very top of the dyke and collecting scientific data for the first national breeding birds atlas and someone exploring the possibilities of his flashy new 4×4 while driving figures of eight along the embankment slopes.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Given that few hunters actually consume coyotes, wolves, cougars, and except for a few individuals, even bears, it is obviously a “waste” of wildlife to shoot or trap these animals just for “fun” 2.

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The Duck Stamp and Lack of National Wildlife Refuge Funding

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It preserves habitat, protects wildlife. Collectively, these MBCF funds have purchased about 2.7 2. Duck Stamp sales to non-hunters are not accurately calculated to reflect their contributions – which tends to short change the conservation goals of non-consumptive users. According to the latest (2013) report by the U.S.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters.

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Use it or lose it?

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There were the neocons, which despite their association with the authoritarian right wing government of George W Bush were wide eyed idealists who believed that you could make the world a better place, and there were the realists, who thought the world was essentially bricked and the best you could hope for was some stability.

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What is the National Bird of Nicaragua?

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He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. I also like that 200-córdoba note, if every country had a note like that then I would cenrtantly collect them all! Wicked, right? 6 Responses to “What is the National Bird of Nicaragua?&# Nice post Corey!

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. The late Victorian age was not a good time to be an egret!

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