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Birds of Pantanal

10,000 Birds

The wide open swampy areas are perfect for easy birdwatching with the transpantaneira road that provides an easy access and becomes a raised platform that birdwatchers use for setting their spotting scopes and huge tripods. The contrast between biodiversity and human destruction is in plain sight everywhere you go!

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. You can make a similar map for the small carnivores, the Mustelids, such as minks, ermines, otters, etc. It isn’t like not killing the cat is in any way humane, considering the number of animals it will kill over time. But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there.