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In good news for several globally threatened bird species including El Oro Parakeet, the nonprofit conservation group Fundación Jocotoco, with the support of American Bird Conservancy (ABC), Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC), World Land Trust (WLT), and other donors, has secured critical habitat and expanded its Buenaventura Reserve in Ecuador.
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Armed with telescopic lenses, 24 West Bank photographers recently took to the Jerusalem wilderness for a two day photoshoot, zooming in on Palestine's Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni, part of a creative conservation package put together by Imad Atrash, Executive Director of the Palestine Wildlife Society (PWLS, BirdLife Partner) and his team.
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Authorities in Jordan announced recently the seizure of 7,000 dead birds in the largest illegal hunting violation ever recorded in the Kingdom of Jordan after receiving reports about a person who was in possession of large numbers of dead birds in the eastern desert.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016
The Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network reports that shorebird counts in Venezuela date back to the 1970s, but over the past decade, especially with the advent of the Neotropical Waterbird Census and the completion of several theses, interest in shorebirds has been steadily increasing — and today, there is a small but dedicated group of researchers and volunteers committed to conserving shorebirds in this country.
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After more than 50 years of absence, the Glossy Ibis has returned to breed in the Obedska Bara wetlands in Serbia, as confirmed earlier this month by ornithologists Dr Slobodan Puzović and Loránd Vigh, whose survey of the breeding grounds found four pairs of Glossy Ibis and 6-8 pairs of Eurasian Spoonbill.
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After more than 50 years of absence, the Glossy Ibis has returned to breed in the Obedska Bara wetlands in Serbia, as confirmed earlier this month by ornithologists Dr Slobodan Puzović and Loránd Vigh, whose survey of the breeding grounds found four pairs of Glossy Ibis and 6-8 pairs of Eurasian Spoonbill.
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After more than 50 years of absence, the Glossy Ibis has returned to breed in the Obedska Bara wetlands in Serbia, as confirmed earlier this month by ornithologists Dr Slobodan Puzović and Loránd Vigh, whose survey of the breeding grounds found four pairs of Glossy Ibis and 6-8 pairs of Eurasian Spoonbill.
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