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Interpol Makes Arrests in Tiger Smuggling

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The two-month operation involved national enforcement agencies in six tiger-range countries (China, India, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam) and was coordinated by INTERPOL's Environmental Crime Program at its headquarters in Lyon, France.

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Blue Monday turned Black Monday – a picture story

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The Black Stork ( Ciconia nigra ) has a very wide distribution in the Old World, ranging from Spain (an isolated population) and northern France through central and eastern Europe all across northern and central Asia to the Pacific coast of Russia and China.

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Miracle Babies; Pandas and Leopards

4 The Love Of Animals

Found in the frozen forests near Russia’s border with Korea, the cats are feared to have just 30 members left in the wild. At the London Zoo, three female gorillas gussy up for a visit from a handsome male gorilla brought in from nearby France. A new captive breeding program may be the cats’ last hope.

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Birding Inner Mongolia

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Second note: Inner Mongolia has a land area larger than that of France and Germany combined, and I only spent one week there. Still, after I used modern software to turn the originally black-and-white photos into colored ones, some of them may still be worth looking at). So, to claim that I birded Inner Mongolia is a massive exaggeration.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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Hunting is also significant during migration and in its wintering range; with an annual toll in France computed at c. 40,000 birds.” (The The IUCN/BirdLife International Red List). Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus. They do breed in the Balkans, in Montenegro and Greece where I observed them, as well as in Bulgaria and Romania.

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A covey of Greys

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Northern France is another area with a strong population. The Grey Partridge has just two other species in its genus, the rather similar Daurian Partridge which occurs in northern China and Russia, and the Tibetan Partridge. There are just a few areas left where it still thrives. How the war is affecting it nobody seems to know.

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Grey Goose Vodka

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For one, it’s made not in Poland, Russia, or Scandinavia, but in France, a country better known for distilling spirits from grapes and apples. His formula calls for French soft winter wheat grown in Picardy, a region in the northeast of France known as the breadbasket of the country. This may be your Anser.

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