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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel. Feature photo of Tom Cade with Mauritius Kestrel by Carl Jones used by permission of The Peregrine Fund.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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Gerald Durrell relates one story in trying to save the endemic herpetofauna of Round Island in Mauritius. The island was being ravaged by rabbits that were destroying every last tree, threatening the future of three lizards and two snakes.