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Power Companies and Springtime Tree Removal

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The person in charge says they’ve been hired by the power company to clear the area around the poles and lines. They say the power company has an easement on your property, so there’s nothing you can do. But back to power companies. Is this true? These were big trees!” Some were 40 feet!” You see how this goes?

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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

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Many of these refuges and associated Conservation Areas, which have the potential to protect more than 1 million acres of vital wildlife habitat, have been forged through creative partnerships with sportsmen, conservation groups and private landowners. President Obama has added 10 new refuges in his first term.

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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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The only wildcat I found was illegally killed by hunters during closed season. It is part of the international ecological corridor and the “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers” Important Bird Area (IBA), already proposed for a nature reserve by the Government’s Institute for the Protection of Nature of Serbia.

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Definitively the Egyptians!

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In 2010, a joint expedition by the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) and the Sudanese Wildlife Society (SWS) found a further 17 electrocuted Egyptian Vultures. Reasons for this situation are numerous. Up to now there have been almost 80 confirmed electrocuted Egyptian Vultures in that area.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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About a month before departure my clients asked me if we were going to the same sites in Ghana as the offerings of another, rather upmarket, birding tour company. Although this park was logged in the past, as a national park it is one of the few forests in Ghana that is really protected. . What makes Ghana so special?

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