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Power Companies and Springtime Tree Removal

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Contact your Town Board, Zoning Board, or, if you have one, Conservation Advisory Board, and ask about implementing such laws. Ah, Europe! Film the tree cutting, get the name of the tree company, and report it to the Law Enforcement Office of the U.S. 4) Dream of the European model. No wildlife rescue required.

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The Battle of Stalingrad, or Crows vs. People

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At the same time, at the western bank of the Volga River corpses piled ever higher… or so starts the plot of the Jean-Jacques Annaud’s movie Enemy at the Gates, with Jude Law as young Zaytsev. And protect them, too. I would advise them to wear a hat, or protect a child with an umbrella for those 20 metres, but to no avail.

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Fairy Bells

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Restricted to northern Europe, their real stronghold is in Britain where more than half of the world’s flowers can be seen during early May. Instead it will celebrate one of the UK’s most spectacular natural events.

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All my patches

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, and at the same time not grumpy enough to make them draw their guns (yep – it’s a true story, but do not trust the first impression: they were rough on the outside and soft on the inside, e.g. being fiercely protective of stray dogs and cats – that particular guy kept about five dogs and 15 cats, and they all lived together peacefully).

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The Smell of Napalm in the Morning

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Out of these 136 bird species, 108 are strictly protected and further 28 protected by Serbian legislation. Considering the number of species, but also habitats of international conservation concern, protection of this area and its biodiversity is clearly an issue of wider European and not merely local significance.

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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as Birds of Europe, 2nd edition (PUP, 2011). The Collins guide covers all of Europe, contains drawings rather than photographs, and is widely considered one of the best field guides in the world. (It’s and population estimate above the map and the bird’s most likely habitats below the map. .”

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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Out of just under 200 bird species I observed this year in SE Europe, there are 6 threatened species. The Common Pochard is not just a scarce breeding bird, but the second most numerous wintering duck in Serbia and it will be a hard battle to protect it against the strong hunting lobby. The IUCN/BirdLife International Red List).

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