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Photograph Wildlife Worldwide with Wildlife Explorers!

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We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. Wildlife Explorers, amongst the numerous trips organized every year, has incorporated some that are designed for both the photographers and their families. The whole family meets again in the evening for a daily dinner.

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Birding and Wildlife photography at Limneo Lodge, Kerkini Lake, Greece

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We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. In 2008, with my family decided to build the Limneo Lodge , a small accommodation with only 9 rooms. From that year onward my work became dedicated to the protection of the area, as well as promotion of local ecotourism possibilities.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. and the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921 in Great Britain). It is reproduced in “Mrs.

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Back from Seattle

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We had a blast, the family and I, and experienced some amazing natural places, to say nothing of the fine city of Seattle. We traveled from sea level to mountain ranges, port towns to wilderness areas, industrial wastelands to manicured parks. wildflowers at Olympic National Park (click for a bigger view) Was it a wonderful trip?

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White Storks Everywhere

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They’re the classic charismatic megafauna, and it’s not at all hard to see why they’ve worked their way into so much folklore and why the people of Europe have made so many efforts to conserve them in the face of industrialization, pesticide overuse, hunting, and other threats. And overall, areas where good stork P.R.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

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Tell me, what happens if we rip away hunting when hunting protects more wildlife land in Africa than national parks? And I really would have like to know what happens to that land when the industry goes. Conservation is concerned about protecting populations, species, habitats, ecosystems. Ah, you’ve blocked me.

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24 Hours in Bangkok, Bang Poo and Muang Boran

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It’s kind of an odd spot, a mix of protected wetland and mangroves mixed with some manicured lawns and parking. Also known as the Flyeater, this tiny bird is the only representative of the Australasian warbler family found in mainland Asia, and very similar to my own Grey Warblers in New Zealand, even their songs.

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