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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. The Service is committed to strengthening and expanding hunting and fishing opportunities,” said Ashe. “The

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Definitively the Egyptians!

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In the 21st century the Egyptian Vulture is an extinct species in Serbia; although we do occasionally have one bird in the Uvac Gorge Griffon Vulture Sanctuary and hope that it might form a pair… Ever since I published a note on the unseen species, I wanted to see it – but the bird was nowhere to be found.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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Now that the colony is off limits for hunting, the population has grown and the village is benefitting tremendously from entry and guide fees, and a school is being built courtesy of conservation funds. According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008.

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