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

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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. The only wildcat I found was illegally killed by hunters during closed season.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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The Little Egret walks in front of her, a dozen Lesser Whistling Ducks flies noisily low above water and through a flooded grass wades one Black-winged Stilt. In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months.

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The Struggle to Save the Birds of Honduras

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The quail, guans, ducks and pheasant are hunted for their meat. Little boys kill thousands of birds each year with slingshots. On top of being illegal to capture and sell birds in the country, it is also immoral. The illegal bird trade kills thousands of birds each year just in the manner they are smuggled.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 4)

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Birdlife Australia does not try to hide being puzzled over the naming of the Pacific Black Duck : “Despite being predominantly brown, the Pacific Black Duck has always been known as the ‘black duck’. If I was so inclined, I might think that they deserve to be killed by Pied Currawongs for their sinful behavior.

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Hotspur’s Revenge: A Review of Three Books

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Now, there are still 10 million of them there but, due in part to a population dip after 1970, it is, in the reign of the second Elizabeth, illegal to kill them intentionally. One is duck sex, which can be, he says, “elaborately aesthetic or shockingly violent and deeply troubling.” What’s magic about 1970?

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