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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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Worth Protecting

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My new birding buddy, Ignacio Torres, knew of this area because a company had built a large partially-paved access road as part of a plan to build a housing development on a pristine, wooded hill. The post Worth Protecting appeared first on 10,000 Birds. This site is along a small river, named Río Bello.

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Wind Farm Company Pleads Guilty to Bird Fatalities

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wind-energy company has admitted that its farms have killed birds, and has settled with prosecutors. law against causing the deaths of protected birds without a permit (and no wind-energy farms seem to have such permits). In what is apparently the first case of its kind, a U.S. These fatalities violate U.S.

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Binocular snobbery

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Many years ago I interviewed Barbara Young, then the newly recruited chief executive of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), for an article for The Daily Telegraph. and for many years Bill (at the time probably Britain’s most high-profile birder) was sponsored by the German company.

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Photograph Wildlife Worldwide with Wildlife Explorers!

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10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Wildlife Explorers is a newly established travel company, founded in September 2019, which deals exclusively with the service of wildlife photographers.

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Responsible Birding in Colombia with Jaguarundi Travel

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10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. Please consider using the services described in this post or any of the other posts we are sharing this February.

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Check out Birding Experiences in Costa Rica

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10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Birding Experiences is a Costa Rican company owned and run by enthusiastic birdwatchers from Costa Rica. Promote bird protection and conservation.