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Oostvaardersplassen

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The rooms are floating in a pond and the pond provides a home for a Eurasian Beaver family. The animals themselves identified as “civilised” and started a hunger strike in protest. Yes, that’s where I was going – the Oostvaardersplassen – and the hotel has a little bridge straight into the National Park. It was awful.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Letters and emails by the thousand poured into the commissioners’ offices, protesting its crane hunting proposal. Kentucky Dept.

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