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Wildlife articles

Keep Calm and Carry on Twitching

Keep Calm and Carry on Twitching

Enjoy the Rare Birds Boom with Kami-Kwasi Economics Guest opinion piece by C.J. Baggdem-Twelvebore and Lee…

World’s Birds Akin to Canaries in Coalmine as Human Impacts Continue Apace

World’s Birds Akin to Canaries in Coalmine as Human Impacts Continue Apace

On 4 May 2022, the Annual Review of Environment and Resources published an advance version of a paper…

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Nature Conservation

Highly pathogenic bird flu variants mostly evolve in intensive poultry farming

Highly pathogenic bird flu variants mostly evolve in intensive poultry farming

Here, some info on evolution of highly pathogenic bird flu variants – maybe better dubbed poultry…

World’s Birds Akin to Canaries in Coalmine as Human Impacts Continue Apace

World’s Birds Akin to Canaries in Coalmine as Human Impacts Continue Apace

On 4 May 2022, the Annual Review of Environment and Resources published an advance version of a paper…

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Science

Never mind the antimask-o-sphere. Science shows face masks help reduce Covid spread

Never mind the antimask-o-sphere. Science shows face masks help reduce Covid spread

Just had one of those silly Twitter “conversations” with someone who had position so fixed, impossible…

A Covid scrapbook: snapshots from the crazy pandemic

A Covid scrapbook: snapshots from the crazy pandemic

I’ve read accounts of the Spanish Flu, which was the last major pandemic, mainly in 1918…

More articles on science, including Covid

Travel tales

One Hump, One Road: Birds and History  in Southwest Yunnan

One Hump, One Road: Birds and History  in Southwest Yunnan

There’s an “only in China” style to Lufeng Dinosaur Valley, with its combination of kitschy dinosaur…

Cat Tien National Park and Ho Chi Minh during the rainy season

Cat Tien National Park and Ho Chi Minh during the rainy season

Though we might be barely three hundred metres from shore, there’s a real sense of adventure…

More travel tales, including China and Indonesia