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AVMF maintains support for veterinary relief in Ukraine

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The American Veterinary Medical Foundation recently awarded a $50,000 grant to maintain a mobile veterinary clinic in Ukraine and purchase food for thousands of the country’s animals.

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Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

10,000 Birds

Sociable Lapwings breed in several areas along the Kazakhstani – Russian border and overwinter in Iraq, Sudan and northwest India.

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How to find the Ural Owl in Serbia

10,000 Birds

The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely seen to the south, only here and there, in the Carpathians (Slovakia/Ukraine/Romania/eastern Serbia) and Dinaric Alps (Croatia/Bosnia/western Serbia).

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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

10,000 Birds

My parents are in England, should I be worried about the conflict on the other side of Europe in the Ukraine?” .” I’ll sometimes add “It’s in West Africa, I’ll be in South Africa. ” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment.

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Some Yummy-scented Winter Birding

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I managed to find one 3rd winter Great Black-backed Gull.

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The European Christmas Bird Count

10,000 Birds

These globally threatened raptors breed from Ukraine eastward through Siberia and only a few come to overwinter here. One odd flock of Feral Pigeons above an arable field under deep snow – nothing for them to eat there, but I didn’t give them the attention they deserve and only a few hours later realised that they actually were Stock Doves.

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

In 2006, in Yalta private zoo (Ukraine) two white lions were left without mother’s care. According to the words of her master Rob Hall, the holder of Cango Wildlife Ranch in South Africa, her maternal skills were observed since Lisha’s first days in conservation.

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