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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. With the exception of species that number in the hundreds, conservation biologists are not as concerned with the fates of individual animals, it is only when such fates of many individuals are added up do they begin to worry.

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The man who saved species

10,000 Birds

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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