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List of Animals in Africa & Endangered Species of Africa

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However, due to delayed industrialization, innovation, and human activities such as deforestation, 4 million hectares of African forests are cut down annually, nearly double the global average. These are just a few of Africa’s most endangered species in desperate need of protection and conservation before it’s too late.

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Botswana’s Private Reserves

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While much of the attention that Africa’s tourism industry gets is for its (deservedly) popular national parks and game reserves, a lot of wildlife viewing is possible away from the big name places. As well as birds, the reserve holds endangered species like African Wild Dogs. Brown-hooded Kingfishers hunt far from water.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2024 (The Colors of Spring)

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Sending photos of it to an American friend and birdwatcher got the following response: “It is grossly unfair that Asians even in massively industrialized landscapes have great kingfishers. Apparently, this bird enjoys sex outside of established relationships but less so with its formal partner.

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Britain and France to Support Ban on Bluefish Tuna Sales

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We've been overfishing the bluefish tuna to near-extinction along with many other species. I used to work for a seafood company and my current work still brings me in contact with the industry. Tags: oceans bluefish tuna marine life seafood endangered species. Greedy, anti-government, and anti-regulation monstrosities.

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GUYANA–Simply Delicious Birding!

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Guyana is probably most famous in birding circles for the unlikely discovery of a population of critically endangered Red Siskins in early 2000. Decades of trapping for the pet industry drove them to the brink of extinction, and their survival into the future was seriously in doubt.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Any animal threatened with a gun or arrow is endangered. Hunters kill members of endangered species. To be consistent (and nonspeciesist).

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314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

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The climatic changes set in motion by the Industrial Revolution are now proceeding at a pace far greater than many species and ecosystems can adapt to naturally. … Conservation Audubon endangered species Extinction Week longspurs science' Are they adaptable and remarkably enduring and resourceful?

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