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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. Putting a baby bird back in its nest is not always the right thing to do. Mites will eventually kill the bird. It is illegal to keep a wild bird.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more! 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. He has earned his tip. Telia, copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj.

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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. I am right, Kostas confirms, it is a Greater Spotted Eagle.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. The State of Louisiana has increased fines for illegal killing of bears.

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Africa’s endangered species

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Rueppell’s (facing left) and White-backed (three birds facing right) Vultures have worryingly leapt two categories from Near-Threatened to Endangered. An adult (left) and subadult (right) White-backed Vulture with full crops after feeding on the remains of a Lion kill, Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley.