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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game. Even more disconcerting to me than these “trophy hunters” killing wildlife for “sport” is the belief by some that carnivores such as bears and wolves should be eliminated.

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Falakhe’s Story

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And the morning before the Mkuze pack of Painted Wolves, or African Wild Dogs, had been very close to one of the park’s few Lions, as far as tracking collars had told. And the two species were not inclined to get on, by which I mean that Lions will kill other large predators including Painted Wolves.

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Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird Nests: A Field Guide Review

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Species are organized by family and families are arranged in taxonomic order according to American Ornithological Society’s Checklist of North American Birds , 7th edition through the 59th Supplement (2018). The organization varies, and there are sometimes more than one Group Accounts for a family. Species Accounts.

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Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa

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The park was created as much to protect the local communities from marauding elephants with a hatred of dangerous humans and a lack of interest in the differences between nations as it was to protect the elephants. It was pretty awesome to see so many tuskers, as well as families of elephants safe in their special park.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. 26, 2011 To the Editor: Seamus McGraw mounts all the standard defenses: I am feeding my family; there are too many deer; I kill as mercifully as possible. Who wiped out the wolves and mountain lions?

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10 Countries, 10 Top Birds in 2016

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I saw Painted Wolves again, my favourite species ever. In particular they evoke the New Hampshire lake my extended family descends upon each summer and has done so from before I was born. Singapore is a densely populated city-state which still manages to protect a number of species. I went to Ethiopia. I bought a house.