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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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Too often there are endless calls to friends of friends, to veterinarians who actually don’t take wildlife, to “animal control experts” who sound so dodgy you’re not sure you want them to know where you live. Animal Help Now is the first nationwide response system for wildlife emergencies.

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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

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Many of these refuges and associated Conservation Areas, which have the potential to protect more than 1 million acres of vital wildlife habitat, have been forged through creative partnerships with sportsmen, conservation groups and private landowners. And some members of Congress want to cut funding dramatically 2.

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The Cry of the Curlew

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Research by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has shown that predation by Foxes (of both eggs and chicks) is one of the most serious factors limiting the success of nesting Curlews. Her long beak indicates that she is a female An email to Tony Cross of the Mid Wales Ringing Group brought a speedy reply.

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Introducing the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

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I’ve spent a lot of time in, and done a lot of writing about, the Rocky Mountains, their beauty, their climate moods, and the wildlife that lives here. But eastern Montana contains the equally though differently stunning high plains, a world unto itself with very different wildlife meeting very different challenges.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

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Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) releases a survey called “ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.”. The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. Every few years, the U.S.

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Week 17: Kruger NP, Crocodile Bridge to Lower Sabie

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By the time you see this in the United States, I will have had a full week to explore this amazing area, and the wildlife that calls this home. Download, sort and organize the pictures from the day, dinner and do this all over again the next day. This fun group shot has quite a variety of birds.

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See OCEANS, Save Oceans!

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Disneynature’s next big-screen splash “OCEANS” has launched group ticket sales to boost its efforts to save coral reefs with proceeds generated from the film’s opening week. “ Groups of 20 or more can reserve tickets today by calling 1-888-DISNEY6. To date, the DWCF has granted more than $14 million to 817 projects in 110 countries.

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