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Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review

10,000 Birds

The book is a grab-bag of facts about the ten birds, mostly culled from other works. Nothing wrong with that, so long as the sources are credited, as they are.) But Mao had apparently never conceived that sparrows and their chicks fed on insects – insects which, in the absence of their natural predators, destroyed the next year’s rice crop.

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China Gets to Buy Elephant Ivory

Critter News

It will allow China to bid for more than 100 tonnes of ivory stockpiled in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe through culling and natural deaths. Britain was one of nine countries which supported the move.

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