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The best birding in Belgrade

10,000 Birds

Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia, offers several great birding spots and here are some recommendations for areas to go birding in and around the city, how to get there by public transport, and some of the bird species you might expect to see. Kosutnjak Park , a former royal deer-hunting forest, is located to the west of the Topcider Park.

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Man Convicted of Illegally Trafficking Live Deer

Critter News

He was transporting them across state lines from Ohio to a hunting preserve in South Carolina. The deer were not tested for disease. The deer still got screwed because they ended up at the hunting preserve, but any kind of sentence for wildlife trafficking must be enforced. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison.

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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

10,000 Birds

When I reached the levee earlier that morning, I met an elderly hunter from whom I learned that there was an ongoing duck and pheasant hunt, but no one was shooting from, nor towards the embankment, hence I should be safe there. Photographed within Beljarica: six wild boars by Snezana Panjkovic.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. To understand the impulse, we need to go back to New Zealand in the Victorian era, in the early days of European settlement.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

If you do view the documentary, I suspect that you will agree that "raising," transporting and slaughtering animals in this way is, indeed, wrong and ought not be supported.] You don't find many hunters who candidly and unapologetically say: "I hunt because I like to kill. Running time: 12 Minutes.