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Use it or lose it?

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During the decades that preceded the Iraq war there were two schools of view on how to deal with that country and its troublesome leader. People, they argue, are more important than bugs, and besides, the money will help pay to protect other conservation land. And not everyone is happy about this. Sustainable hunting doesn’t.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. As they say, the relationship is complicated.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

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Maybe those should be protected too? Given that the Black Kite is politely described as an “opportunistic hunter” – which includes the fact that they are more likely to scavenge than most other raptors – the name choice of the company protecting the world’s cyber ecosystem is a bit weird.

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