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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

10,000 Birds

Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy. Serbia has a right-centre Government that for years avoided protecting any of the already proposed areas, heavily pushing the development at whatever cost and miserably failing the environment. Golden Jackals in Beljarica.

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Tensions Mount over University of Florida Animal Research

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Animal rights activists are targeting a University of Florida researcher for his role in experiments on primates — even though he says he doesn't personally conduct animal research. Wonder if that could get activists into trouble under AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.) This is a long article from the Gainesville Sun.

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On Different Results of Direct Action

Animal Person

Here's another direct action and its result, as described in an interview by Larry Mantle on KPCC Radio (it's the one called " Animal Rights vs. Animal Testing "). He speaks of the "mixed message of the animal rights community" that animals are so much like us, yet not enough like us to experiment on. That's one result.

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Birders: A Documentary Short Film Review

10,000 Birds

We see a closer shot of the river itself, hawks flying across the span, and then we see that brown line again, close up, a wall of brown panels filling the right side of the screen, continuing into the distance, no end in sight, while a white pick-up truck drives parallel to it at the far left of the screen.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

Recent publicity about these remarkable tribes has resulted in tourists wanting to experience this wild land and its attractions for themselves. This is largely due to the remoteness and prior near inaccessibility of the area, forming a natural barrier to modernization and the detribalization of the Omo Valley.

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Lessons Learned, The Finale

Animal Person

Reading thousand-word long posts in black type on a plain white screen with nothing interesting to look at isn't exactly a satisfying sensory experience. As for categories, I never got that one right, either. I didn't do the right thing for Animal Person. Every blogger's goal is to have their blog read, right?

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The 701 Long-eared Owl of Kikinda

10,000 Birds

Many social network protesters found it obscene. There’s nothing wrong with either, but the prudish protesters demanded its removal and the ever populist authorities were quick to announce that the sculpture will be replaced with a different owl sculpture. The best decorated single tree had 145 owls in its crown.

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