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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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FWC officers arrived at a reptile facility and forcefully killed 29 reticulated pythons, 5 Burmese pythons, and 1 pregnant Boa constrictor. This put Coffee in an impossible position - he needed to rehome the pythons because they were illegal in Florida, but the FWC was threatening to face him with additional criminal charges if he did so.

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Spotlight: Maureen Eiger – To Intervene or Not to Intervene?

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Experience shows that bird parents do feed babies in makeshift nests reattached to tree branches, bushes, gutters, and even tree cavity sections duct taped to another tree. Mites will eventually kill the bird. It is illegal to keep a wild bird. Wild bird rehabilitators want bird parents to feed their own babies.

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Drunk Birding

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So, I will have to take the last refuge of a lazy blogger and report from personal experience. I imagine that birding while high on marijuana might lead to, ahem, interesting experiences, and I don’t even want to know what type of sightings might occur when one birds on a hallucinogen (Man, did you see that fly by?

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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She has grown up in the reserve and has no experience of the environment of which tourists would not be a permanent, however boring part of. In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months.

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Groups Seek Charges in Sheep Decompression Tests

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It is illegal in Wisconsin to kill an animal by means of decompression. The university stopped conducting the experiments last fall when it learned that it may have been violating state law, said Eric Sandgren, who oversees animal research at UW-Madison.

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Africa’s endangered species

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The reasons that these ten have been selected is to illustrate some of the myriad reasons that Africa’s birds are being driven to extinction; from commercial overfishing, powerline collisions, illegal trade, poisoning, traditional medicine usage, overgrazing and conversion of specialized habitats into agricultural land.

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The Lake of Beasts: Kerkini, Greece

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The Lesser White-fronted Goose is one of the most threatened waterfowl species of the Western Palearctic, with illegal killing being the most important threat globally. I counted them very roughly, but I do have a lot of experience estimating flocks. Stopping here and there to scope the mudbar….

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