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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

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They may have been disturbed by the presence of hunters in the Danube backwaters. When I reached the levee earlier that morning, I met an elderly hunter from whom I learned that there was an ongoing duck and pheasant hunt, but no one was shooting from, nor towards the embankment, hence I should be safe there.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. .” California Condors are thriving now, mostly, but Osborn’s experiences in the early 2000’s were years of triumph and heartbreak.

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Puffin Trip in Maine

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For nearly a hundred years, after the eggers, meat-hunters, plume-hunters, and a human-influenced gull population boom, puffins were absent from the island. They were reintroduced to Eastern Egg Rock starting in 1973 , with over a thousand young transported from Canada over several years.

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Virginia Fox Smuggler Gets Six Months

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Hunters would then pay to hunt in the pens. The animals were transported in the closed bed of a pickup truck, sometimes with two dozen or more animals crowded together. He was caught after a yearlong investigation by Virginia game officials that included the undercover purchases of 54 red foxes and 47 coyotes from Blevins.

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Wisconsin Falconer Legally Traps Snowy Owl

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Many general and master falconers with wild birds will also let them go after a few hunting seasons, especially if they are good hunters to give them a shot at spreading their genes in the wild. When you see a falconer transporting their bird or walking with a group, the bird might be in a dark crate or hooded. Not all the time.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

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I get that you’re really angry, I mean, he was a popular lion and yes, his cute widdle cubs will probably die to, but I can’t help feeling you’ve kind of missed the point a bit, and well, ending all hunting in Africa will not solve much and maybe make things worse and… No, no, I’m not a hunter.

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Falakhe’s Story

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The day before, the day I arrived, was a transport day, and that meant the pack hadn’t been seen in the afternoon. At first we were concerned that another dog had been injured, perhaps hit by one of the hunter’s cars (who were watching the pack as well).

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