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GUYANA–Simply Delicious Birding!

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Giant anteaters, giant otters, giant armadillos, giant river turtles, giant termites and giant waterlilies that can sustain the weight of a human baby! That’s quite the list of charismatic and unique wildlife to add to your potential list of sightings. Giant anteaters are just one of the wildlife highlights of the Rupununi.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. National wildlife refuges provide premier outdoor recreational opportunities across the Nation.

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

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You can make a similar map for the small carnivores, the Mustelids, such as minks, ermines, otters, etc. An abstract from a recent paper in Nature : Anthropogenic threats, such as collisions with man-made structures, vehicles, poisoning and predation by domestic pets, combine to kill billions of wildlife annually. billion birds and 6.9–20.7

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Birds of Pantanal

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Pantanal is about the size of Florida and is the largest fresh water swamp in the world; it is full of birds and other wildlife making it one the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world. Unfortunately this place, like all other biodiverse places in the world, is being destroyed and threaten by us, the needy greedy humans.

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