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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. I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. All the resources we consume come from nature. Conservation conservation science hunting logging'

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand). This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. Simon Baron-Cohen, cousin to the comedian. Seriously, this book is crying out for a movie treatment!).

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

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I am not sure about the security situation in Iraq these days but at least some people do ornithological research there – resulting in papers such as one titled “Breeding observations of the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines , 1789) in Iraq” Impressive. Fortunately, they are quite common in Shanghai.

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