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Suit Against Circus Owners Goes to Trial

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According to the complaint, the defendants routinely beat elephants, violating the 1973 Endangered Species Act by hitting them with bull hooks. employee, claims the defendants inhumanely and illegally mistreat their Asian elephants and have done so for decades. The anticipated three-week, non-jury trial takes place in U.S.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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Endangered Species List, giving it free reign to wander and populate North America in ever increasing numbers, including a nest on the ledge of the U.S. Fidelity And Guaranty home office building in Baltimore, Maryland. Between 1974 and 2005, more than 7000 young Peregrines were hacked in the United States and Canada.

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

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Thomas Serfass, a professor at Maryland’s Frostburg State University says, “I would describe the North American Model as incomplete. Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air and Water Acts, and similar acts in Canada. New Ideas In Conservation.

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The Economic Impact of Birding on National Wildlife Refuges: Creating Local Jobs

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Critically, NWRs preserve habitat and wildlife, often for endangered species. For example, even if nobody visited Aransas NWR in Texas, it would still provide virtually all of the wintering habitat for the endangered Whooping Crane. Blackwater NWR (Maryland): 223,000; $7.8 million in economic activity and 8 jobs.

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