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Suit Against Circus Owners Goes to Trial

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

District Court in Washington, D.C. 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.

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

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AUGUST 13, 2019

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. Nisqually NWR (Washington): 289,000; $15.1 Blackwater NWR (Maryland): 223,000; $7.8

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Suit Against Circus Owners Goes to Trial

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