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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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Before I had a clue what I was doing, I encompassed the Danube backwaters into the reserve borders that I drew on transparent paper pressed against a street map of the city. Fascinated with New York’s Jamaica Bay, I started dreaming about creating a similar wetland reserve on the Danube inside Belgrade, the very area I explored.

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Atttorney's File Motion to Dismiss Charges Against AETA 4

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From the press release: “To characterize protest and speech as terrorist activities is ludicrous,” said Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) cooperating attorney Matthew Strugar. The AETA is so broad and unclear it could be used to suppress lawful protests and boycotts by any activists across the spectrum, no matter what the issue.

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Review of The Conference of the Birds by Peter Sis

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It is amazing that the problems the birds face and the lesson that they learn translate so well to the current day and political situation, as organic protest movements that eschew individual leaders or spokespeople arise around the globe. Go get The Conference of the Birds and enjoy it as much as I do. inches … a.

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Activists in Mexico Bomb Max Mara Store

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According to a communique received by Bite Back , they did this in protest of Max Mara's use of furs. It was not a whim or an attempt to get attention, as the sensationalist press will say; instead this is a response to the domination, objectification and commodification of millions of animals (mink, chinchilla, fox, raccoons, etc.)

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Recent Events Involving Our Public Lands Are Alarming

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In case you missed the latest news cycle, the seven armed antigovernment protesters thugs pictured above were acquitted last Thursday of federal conspiracy and weapons charges stemming from that takeover of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge last winter. From a press release by the American Bird Conservancy.

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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

Animal Ethics

But what we have accomplished up to this time must be multiplied a thousandfold if the great battles are to be joined and won." ( Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 399-400 [ellipsis added] [first edition published in 1983])

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The 2016 AOU Supplement and the Costa Rica Bird List

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However, we may need to stop the press on this one (at least I might have to) at least until we figure out where the two species actually meet in Costa Rica because in most places within our borders, it seems like we have the Gray-cowled.