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The Why of Ferrets

10,000 Birds

Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader. It was a humiliation for scientific know-how and the technocratic fix in the face of environmental catastrophe, a disaster that would inform the controversy over later captive breeding efforts for other endangered species.

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African Penguins in Peril

10,000 Birds

Their numbers have declined so rapidly that a paltry 10 percent of the pre-20th century population remains (read Adam Riley’s post on Africa’s endangered species ). On the mainland they face predation from domestic cats, dogs, genets, mongoose and Cape Gulls which steal their chicks and eggs.

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