All posts tagged american bird conservancy

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Study Shows Growing Coffee and Cacao in Shade Helps Birds

Press-release from the American Bird Conservancy highlighting the obvious – but it’s worth bearing in mind that without the data from studies like these it’s all too easy for producers, industrialists, developers and the like to carry on with ‘business …

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“KittyCam” Reveals High Levels of Wildlife Being Killed by Outdoor Cats

Below is part of a press-release from the American Bird Conservancy that demonstrates the vast number of animals killed by cats, and will surely prove to even the

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American Bird Conservancy: Bermuda Petrel population becoming ‘self-sustaining’

Bird Once Thought Extinct for Over 300 Years Now Numbers Over 100 Nesting Pairs

http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/stories/120411.html, April 11, 2012:

The recovery program for a bird once believed extinct, the

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Peru: Endangered endemic Junin Rail photographed

Press-release from the American Bird Conservancy, 01 March 12:
An extremely rare and incredibly reclusive bird — the Junin Rail Laterallus tuerosi — was seen and photographed

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US: Environmental Protection Agency Cancels Registrations of Two Pesticides Linked to Bird Deaths

Excellent news from the American Bird Conservancy announcing the effective banning of two highly toxic pesticides widely linked to enormous numbers of bird deaths in the Americas.

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New Conservation Area in Peru Protects Rare Cat, Birds, and Disappearing Cloud Forests

Press-release from the American Bird Conservancy, 29 Feb 12:

A new conservation area established in central Peru will help protect the area’s shrinking cloud forest, as well as

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American Bird Conservancy: Wind Eagle Take Permit Not Justified

'Data Deficient in Several Areas, Standards Prescribed in Feds’ Own Rules Not Met'. A few weeks we posted a press-release ('Responding to a Proposed US Eagle Take

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US: restricting the constrictors

Back in October 2009 the U.S. Geological Survey put out a press-release on non-native snakes which said, amongst other things, that:

"Five giant non-native snake species would

Responding to a Proposed US Eagle Take Permit

'The devil's in the details'. A very interesting press-release (below) from the American Bird Conservancy that at first sight perhaps flies in the face of common-sense and conservation

ABC: Endangered El Oro Parakeet helped by new land acquisition

Press-release from the American Bird Conservancy, Washington, D.C., December 20, 2011:

 

A critical, 318-acre parcel of land in southwestern Ecuador has been acquired as part of the Buenaventura

  

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