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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

7, 2008 The writer is director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment , Harvard Medical School. Though hunting still plays a role and led to a bilateral treaty with Russia, ratified last September, climate change is the major threat to polar bears today. Eric Chivian Boston, Jan. To the Editor: The argument made by Gov.

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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan again (but maybe for the last time)

10,000 Birds

Curiously, shortly after he had settled down as a medical doctor in Britain, he was appointed professor of geology and natural history and mineralogy and later (at another university) of zoology and botany as well. Presumably, in Russia, all these species are called “special operations” these days.

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