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

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC) is often held up as the best system of wildlife management and conservation in the world. But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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Owls live and migrate from Arctic circumpolar to Colorado prairie to South American rainforest to Southeast Asian islands, Galapagos islands, Canary islands–many many islands–to coastal Australia and onward. Wolf Lichen is rich in toxic vulpinic acid and in the old days was boiled up with meat and used to poison wolves.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

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I was looking out a car window the other day and noticed that of all the wildlife most of it was bird. Tropical Forest Ecology: a view from Barro Colorado Island. I’m sure there were a lot of insects in range of my eyeballs, hiding behind leaves or camouflaged against bark as insects are wont to do. Sources Laden, Greg.

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