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Stop the Madness: More Whooping Cranes Shot

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Image above by AP Photo/Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.). A reward of $1000 has been offered for information helping authorities track down the shooters; more info is here. Or, rather, jerks who give the vast majority of ethical hunters a bad name.) Another pair of Whoopers has been shot , this time in Louisiana.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC) is often held up as the best system of wildlife management and conservation in the world. But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today.

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Wolves

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Here is a New York Times editorial opinion about the removal of the gray wolf ( Canis lupus ) from the endangered-species list. The editorial board of the Times is intellectually dishonest, so please don't let this be your only source of information about the delisting. Fish & Wildlife Service.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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Very little information was available at the time, so we hired a car and off we went, following the few tips we had managed to gather but mostly our noses. Despite birding in shattered forests with the constant background whine of chainsaws, the birding is phenomenal, with an incredible diversity and volume of rare and endangered species.

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