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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC) is often held up as the best system of wildlife management and conservation in the world. But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today.

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European Union Farming Policies Wiping Out Birds

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Familiar birds across the European countryside are suffering precipitous declines. In order to boost food production across Europe, the wholesale ripping up of hedgerows, draining of wetlands and ploughing over of meadows has robbed farmland birds of their homes and food. We have been sleepwalking into a disaster.”

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The Importance of Nurturing Young Birders

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In the grand scheme of things, this is just a small town and only one person was killed due to injuries suffered. Kelly Preheim was talking about the large numbers of Snowy Owls on the nearby National Wildlife Refuge. On Mother’s Day, an F2 Tornado hit the small town of Delmont, South Dakota. Chaos and insulation.

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Fur Free Fashion Show Winners Announced

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Apostol said “It is the responsibility of us, the designers and manufacturers, to bring environmental awareness to the consumer by providing more and better sustainable products and style.” Born Free USA (BFUSA) is a nationally recognized leader in animal welfare and wildlife conservation.

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J. Baird Callicott on Factory Farms

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From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being. That immoral something is the transmogrification of organic to mechanical processes. (

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Climate Change and Birds

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Also, these human-occupied area are probably full of toxins and other impediments to normal use by wildlife. It takes a long time of relatively stable sea level to form strong barrier beaches and broad and productive salt marshes. Get more National Wildlife Federation updates at NWF.org/News. These features will become rare.

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