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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. Feature photo of Tom Cade with Mauritius Kestrel by Carl Jones used by permission of The Peregrine Fund. And grow they did.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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The initial solution in New Zealand was to move species to islands where mammals hadn’t reached. This technique achieved a temporary respite for some critically endangered species, but there is a real shortage of islands around New Zealand with no mammals whatsoever.

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The man who saved species

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Image by Errol Nye, ( Creative Commons Share-alike ) I’ll talk about each of the programmes in more depth in the future, but both used the technique known as close order management (COM), which worked with critically endangered species at the level of individual rather than population.

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