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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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Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

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SERVIR Africa Workshop. The access road passes the Lake Manyara NP and through communal farming lands within Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Serengeti NP protects a huge swathe of almost 15,000 km2 / 6000 mi2 in north-west Tanzania. Collaborative partnership with Yale University.

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Definitively the Egyptians!

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In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. Up to now there have been almost 80 confirmed electrocuted Egyptian Vultures in that area.

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The Whistle Blowers

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With assistance from the Negril Area Environmental Protection Trust (NEPT) a boardwalk and nature centre have been established. This conservation effort has resulted in habitat and protection for nearly the entire population of West Indian Whistling Ducks in Jamaica. So he began to put out extra feed for the birds.

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2010 Declared the Year of the Tiger.So What?

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The Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop declared 2010 to be the Year of the Tiger. When China won't support a ban on tiger farms, nor will it work to curb the ridiculous demand for tiger products in its own country, what's the point? China is the single biggest threat to the tiger and it won't participate seriously in its protection.

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