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Not enough Woodpeckers

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. “I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover.

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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

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What about people who are kind and decent and obey the law? Biologist Lindsay Young says it will take 8 years to replace the breeding birds; 14 years of research and data have been destroyed. Who suffers for these crimes? The innocent birds and the decent, law-abiding people who cared for them.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. All individuals share the costs of conserving wildlife.

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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

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Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 1. Additional issues include a shortage of law enforcement officials, as well as invasive species problems on 2.5 There is an operations and maintenance backlog of $3.3

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: “ What’s Next in the Law? Several colleagues and I recently conducted a purely observational study to determine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in chimpanzees previously used in experimental research and now living in a sanctuary in Louisiana. Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience.