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Leaping Foxes

10,000 Birds

We call it a “mouse gradation year” I was not able to find a catchy English term for “gradation year” – it’s what happens when a certain species showing population cycles reaches a peak year. But of course the mammalian meat eaters will be happy too and reproducing like there’s no tomorrow.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat. Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. A more problematic conflict is that fought over what to do with damaging introduced species. ” one.