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The Reva Situation

10,000 Birds

About the size of a hare, it is more clumsily jumping, than running… and that tail… It was the European Otter ! Then the machines returned, finished the asphalt and started pouring tons upon tons of concrete rubble from many construction sites in the city into the marsh that otter once ran into. Photo by Branislav Dencic.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. You can make a similar map for the small carnivores, the Mustelids, such as minks, ermines, otters, etc. Free-ranging domestic cats have been introduced globally and have contributed to multiple wildlife extinctions on islands. But they don’t live in North America. billion birds and 6.9–20.7

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Birds of Pantanal

10,000 Birds

Pantanal is about the size of Florida and is the largest fresh water swamp in the world; it is full of birds and other wildlife making it one the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world. Hundreds-of-thousands of cattle share the swampy fields with the most exotic reptiles, mammals, fish, birds, insects and humans.

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