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Utah's Shelters Providing Strays to Labs for Research

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Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. That's because of a little-known state law that requires government-run pounds to turn animals over to researchers if asked. Tags: animal research animal shelters strays.

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

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Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. were funded by hunters and 95.1% funded by the non-hunting public.”

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Proposed Changes to the Duck Stamp Not Well Received

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3) Action : Identify demographic information that is currently being collected by e-stamp states and additional information required for improving sales. 1) Action : Change law to allow the e-stamp to suffice as the requirement to hunt waterfowl for the duration of the hunting season. Sometimes the easiest path is not the right one.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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Author Joshua Hammer, who previously wrote about a different type of real-life-unexpected-caper in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu , read about Lendrum in the Times of London in 2017, realized the possibilities, did the research. And, some background on those laws, both in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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What are the Costs of Changing Bird Names?

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McCown , who first collected it in 1851, but is more known for being a Confederate general in the Civil War. In practice, this means that proposals to the NACC advocating a change to a long-established English name must present a strongly compelling, well-researched, and balanced rationale. The species was named after John P.

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Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea–A Field Guide Review

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The archipelago consists of 17,000 islands stretching out over 2500 miles along the Equator with a varied history of avian research and study, most on the under- or not-studied side. Two-columned text is on the left and illustrations and range maps on the right. So, this is no ordinary bird guide. Where is the Indonesian Archipelago?

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Champions of the Flyway – the Dakar Rally of Birding

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However, this law has had little effect on curbing the illegal trapping. The mistake has its origins in 1878, when ornithologists Henry Tristram and Allan Hume both collected specimens of what was then described as Hume’s owl. Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean and is a crucial stop-over for migrating birds.

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