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JUNE 4, 2009
Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2015
I live in the southeast of Europe, for a while lived in the south of Africa and also have extensively birded western and central India. Here where I live – in one of the bird-richest corners of Europe, but I miss the species diversity of my yester years. Map by BirdLife International. I am talking 600 or 700+ bird species.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2016
In the most of Europe, Brown Bear is a mythical creature that lives only in mediaeval tapestries and folk tales. Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. In the European Union there are only 10,000 mature bears (source: IUCN). Not at all.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 26, 2015
No, I took a paddle and discovered the Danube backwaters (cover photo: 1995), the very same area I am fighting to protect now, but the Government, it seems, has an interested investor… Seeing the most valuable habitats disappearing in front of our eyes, environmentalists are quite prone to depression, but that is another story.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2016
The following pictures were taken at Hannover Zoo recently, showing just that – feeding and preening, for a family-friendly birding experience. A foraging Common Moorhen has me thinking that in spite of recent research, not all birds are particularly bright. Beware of Crocodiles.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2017
Aisholpan Nurgaiv is a graceful, rosy-cheeked 13-year old girl with a magic smile who makes living on the edge of nowhere and forever look like the easiest experience in the world. The Eagle Huntress has been well received in Europe and the U.S. Photo by Andrew Yarme, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
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