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EPA, FDA weigh oversight overhaul for animal parasite products

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Two federal agencies are considering transferring oversight of some 600 products from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), a proposal that raises more questions than answers.

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

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The piece describes why this corner of the world often has an attitude toward indiscriminate hunting that ranges from laissez-faire to Wild West, and also the toll that the ensuing slaughter takes on populations of birds that are protected in their northern European summer homes. Photo of the Nihoa Millerbird by S.

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What’s Up with the ABA?

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This suggests that this news was unexpected and/or that the ABA did not have a secession plan. T]he Association had suffered net losses and has a net deficiency in net assets that raise substantial doubt as its ability to continue as a going concern.”. A quick tour of the ABA website reveals other issues.

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“One for the crow”: Dancing Crow Vineyards Zinfandel (2017)

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Though these decoys are erected in hopes of warding off all birds, it’s protection from corvids in particular that’s invoked by the scarecrow. Birds and Booze News. The crow’s reputation as a formidable agricultural pest is embodied across farm country in the scarecrow. Good birding and happy drinking!

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Of Nesting Spoonbills, Nestling Flamingos, Left-the-Nest Shearwaters, and Mystery Gulls

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And they’re making the news, too. Speaking of birds in nests, five Chilean Flamingo chicks who were raised by a human “surrogate dad” at a British wildlife center have now graduated to joining the adults in the center’s colony. Think about it, have you ever seen a pink bird and not wanted to see it again?

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“They fly and fly until there’s no more ocean to fly over” — a review of the book “Shearwater”

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But there is, apparently, and thanks to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, some good news on the rat front in that part of the world.). They were named for the Isle of Man but are no longer found there – the arrival of the brown rat ruined that home for them. (But

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Should the Military Force Protect the Environment?

Critter News

Thought-provoking article in the Boston Globe.some green thinkers are now coming to a surprising conclusion: In exceptional circumstances, they say, the only effective way to protect the environment may be at the barrel of a gun. In Nicaragua, the army patrols beaches to protect sea turtle eggs.