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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia

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Too little, too late – yes; but still a step in the right direction. You guessed it right – the hunting lobby used their influence for political pressures. For God’s sake, how much can we extract from 400 shooters, to make it worth encouraging large scale wildlife poaching and tainting the country’s name? What happened next?

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Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team

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What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. They would be made up of people who are sick and tired of government-protected species being slaughtered by domestic cats.

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Great News! Feral Cats to be Removed from Plumb Beach, Brooklyn!

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They are filling up comment sections on blogs , rallying on Facebook , and doing everything they can to stop the removal of cats and allow the continued slaughter of wildlife by said cats. (If After all, it takes courage to stand up to the cat crazies and he should be thanked for doing the right thing.

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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

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The “Crow Down” is a “hunting contest” where both adults and children slaughter as many crows as they possibly can in two days. On the website he reminisces fondly about his “best hunt,” where he killed 3,125 crows in 9 days, bringing to mind the days when people slaughtered seemingly endless flocks of passenger pigeons and herds of buffalo.

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10,000 Birds Launches Alley Rat Allies

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Like cats, the rat has been the victim of campaigns to make it the bad guy in terms of disease and damage wildlife. As for the former, diseases are spread by fleas, which also plague rats, which makes rats as much a victim as humans, and as for the latter, rats are clearly wildlife and how can wildlife be blamed for hurting wildlife?

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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

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People who work with wildlife understand that death is a part of life. People do not work with wildlife for fame and fortune. What about others who work tirelessly to repopulate and protect wildlife, who live in fear this may happen to their colonies? If they are strong and wily enough, men. Please write: [link] .

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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. Fish and Wildlife Service). **And

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