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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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The latest press release from the USFWS. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. Hunting, within specified limits, is permitted on 335 wildlife refuges.

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Good News About Blue Whales

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From the Associated Press: Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say. The hunting peaked in 1931 with more than 29,000 animals killed in one season.

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India Takes More Steps to Protect Tigers

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From the Press Association. He added that the forest ministry, state governments and a separate authority on the management of tiger reserves had agreed to work together to ensure conservation of the endangered animal. This will increase the habitat area for tigers, who prefer to live and hunt in thick vegetation.

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

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Press, 2000), and updated in terms of taxonomy, status, and distribution. For endangered species, red and gray tabs at the top of the page indicate level of threatened status from the IUCN and the Libro Rogo de los Vertebrados Cubanos (Red Data Book for Cuban Vertebrates). Press in 2003. Garrido, et al.,

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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Creatures that crawled, or worse, slithered, would lie in the bottoms, pressed into shade and invisibility. Done properly, a young hawk is curtailed in a growing compulsion to fly greater distances and hunt for herself by a process sometimes called “manning.” This wasn’t a place for the inexperienced.

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Edward’s Pheasant

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Concern for the future of this species is such that the WPA and BirdLife International-Vietnam Programme are working together to organize immediate action. The most pressing need is for intensive surveys in the bird’s native habitat, to maximise chances of locating any remaining populations in the wild.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism.

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