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Agriculture Fears Possible "Cow Tax"

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4, 2008 by the Environmental Protection Agency to charge a fee for air-polluting cows and hogs. It would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs to pay an annual fee of about $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 Remember cows "emit" methane.) Gimme, gimme, gimme!

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On Killing Cows to Save Elephants

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In other words, it's so tragic that elephants are in mortal danger that you should kill cows to help protect the imperiled elephants? All the proceeds will benefit the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation (GTAEF) conservation, which has rescued 11 baby and young-adult elephants since its inception in 2006.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Milk or Bread

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While snakes protect their eggs, and may protect their young for a short period of time after they hatch, baby snakes are very soon on their own. In summary: unless you’re a cow or a human, cow’s milk is always a bad idea. – will develop serious and often fatal stomach problems if fed cow’s milk.

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Masked Lapwings breeding at Derby airport

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The Masked Lapwing is one of the noisiest shorebirds in the north, especially when they are protecting a nest or young. Returning along the road to leave the airport the Masked Lapwing became very protective of her nest and spread her wings out wide over the nest area and became increasingly noisy. Masked Lapwing protecting a nest.

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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair With Nature

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Once he was a black child, and he grew up on a farm in Edgefield County, South Carolina, surrounded by protected woodlands and troubled human history. The love of nature is evident in his chapters about his parents and siblings; his family is ever-present in his musings on trees and springs and cows. Drew Lanham is a black man.

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More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. The proposal from U.S. Thanks for visiting! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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THE QUEST FOR THE RAREST OWL OF INDIA

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From the next curve in the road, I can see the cows grazing deep in the valley: “If I was a tiger, I would check my prey from here.” Nitin was talking to rangers and explains: “A few days ago, one of the 70 or so tigers in the reserve has indeed taken a cow.

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