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Out Birding to Help an Endemic Sparrow in Costa Rica

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It doesn’t require forest but the coffee farms and scrubby green space it does need are under constant pressure of being destroyed and replaced with urban housing. Fortunately, local researchers have been well aware of the dire need to learn about this species so it can be adequately protected. Carman, and Luis Sandoval.

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Research and Birding at Elkhorn Slough

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The trail wove downhill, around farm buildings demonstrative of the agricultural history of the site before it became protected. We crossed the train tracks that bisected the property, hiking up a staircase to a wooded island with another beautiful marsh overlook.

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HollyWoof Gift Bags Spoil Celebrity Dogs!

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Products to help with dry skin, smells, training, and even fine art pieces were included. For those D-List smells, itches and skin issues comes Farm Dog Naturals’ new line of products, Pet Urine Eco Cleaner, Salvation Dry Skin & Crusty Nose Salve and Restore Itch Relief. There were a lot of other great goodies in the gift bag!

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

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The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training! Thanks and best wishes!

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. Back in the olden days of the family farm we never knew about the occurrence of food-related illness because we did not have a way of tracking it. Peters Paso Robles, Calif.,

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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conservation legislation and regulation, a tool used to protect birds from irresponsible hunting, industrial intrusion and incidental take, habitat loss and pollution, and to encourage best practices by everyone, from birders to corporations. Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds.