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314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

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The experience was marvelous — but it also weighed heavily on me. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. That’s one of my photos above. Birds are finely tuned to the climatic conditions that support them. What a horror! What a wrong!

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

10,000 Birds

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 refuge is already open to upland game hunting and sport fishing.

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