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Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

10,000 Birds

You know the famous novel about rabbits , wherein among other things the traveling bunnies find themselves in a warren where everyone is well fed and happy, and that’s a problem. For the many breeding birds facing high nest-predation pressure, enemy-free space can be gained by nesting near more formidable animals for physical protection.

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Adonis Blue

10,000 Birds

ForestPuffin was targeting this species as it is very habitat dependent and, unbeknownst to me, such habitat exists within a big stone’s throw of my house. Many ‘blue’ chrysalises are found within ant nests, enjoying the warmth and protection until they emerge as adults.

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Stop the Tennessee Sandhill Crane Hunt! (Again)

10,000 Birds

To me, this is like giving a child a baby rabbit as a birthday present, and then when Harvey proves to be a bit too much to care for, bumping him off in front of her. So, please, take a couple of minutes from your day to take action to help protect this magnificent and wild creature. The state’s response? It’s bad PR.

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Judge Clears Way for HSUS Suit Over Fur Advertising

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The lawsuit, filed under the D.C. The complaint also alleges violations of the federal Fur Products Labeling Act and Federal Trade Commission Act, which also prohibit the false advertising and mislabeling of any fur product.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. With the exception of species that number in the hundreds, conservation biologists are not as concerned with the fates of individual animals, it is only when such fates of many individuals are added up do they begin to worry.

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Can Stewart Island become Pest Free?

10,000 Birds

New Zealand has one of the direst records of extinction is modern times, second on really to Hawaii in terms of bird species lost. The initial solution was translocation, but there were a limited amount of islands on which you could place species without mammals being a problem, and they were only very small islands.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

10,000 Birds

The lack of people does not mean we have any less extinct or threatened bird species than other countries. European settlement in Australia has been the cause of the decline of a variety of bird species and if not directly, then indirectly by the introduction of other species that have been the cause of their decline.

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