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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Money for greater local enforcement is now the most pressing need to combat poachers and the armed wildlife trade syndicates to which they are increasingly linked. BENNETT Jeju, South Korea, Sept. 4, 2012 The writer is vice president for species conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society. ELIZABETH L.

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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

This bird spent the 2011-2012 winter at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in northern California, migrated someplace exotic and distant in February, and returned to the same pond at the beginning of this month. This bird has two of the qualities that birders most want in a bird: it is a total crippler, and is staggeringly rare.

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