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Animal Rights Activists Jailed in Europe

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Some employees from firms in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland had "puppy killer" and "scum" daubed on their houses. Tags: europe activism huntingdon animal rights. The cost of the damage and increased security measures amounted to 12.6 million pounds, the court heard.

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1 in 4 Species Face Extinction Threat

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"Our results paint a bleak picture of the global status of mammals worldwide," the team led by Jan Schipper of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in Gland, Switzerland, concluded. "We Tags: extinction. The findings were being released Monday at the IUCN meeting in Barcelona, Spain.

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The mysterious international Lesser Scaup

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It has been seen near Luzern (85 km away) in Switzerland, so it is not a very local bird at all. Because of all the places it could have called its winter home, it chose the Rhine separating Huningue and Weil am Rhein, the border triangle of Switzerland, France and Germany. My first contact: Grüetzi, Bonjour & Guten Tag!

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Serbia self-drive birding tour planning

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It turned out Raphael Nussbaumer is a keen ornithologist who just completed his PhD in Lausanne (Switzerland). 10000birds.com/tag/serbia ). Quite a few rarely visited spots and rarely seen birds landed in our inboxes, which prompted me to ask Raphael more about his tour and how he prepared it without asking any local birder for advice.

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Scaup are the Worst Duck

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We have exactly two posts tagged with either “ Greater Scaup ” or “ Lesser Scaup.” The only time I care in the slightest which scaup I am seeing is the first time I see each species in a new year and when doing some type of big day. ” Imagine that!

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