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Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.Asiatic black bears in Russia face conservation threats such as habitat destruction and fragmentation, which exacerbate food shortages caused by crop failures. This study explores an innovative approach to rehabilitating bears that abandon hibernation in mid‐winter due to extreme exhaustion by providing supplemental food near their den sites.
Sergey A. Kolchin +2 more
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The Pervasive Nature of Animal Law: How the Law Impacts the Lives of People and their Animal Companions [PDF]
, 2009 Faculty members at Valparaiso University School of Law who attain the rank of full professor are expected to deliver an inaugural lecture to the University community and the public at large.
Huss, Rebecca J.
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Attitudes to Exotic Parakeets: A Comparative Case Study and Citizen Science Review
DiversityInvasive, non-native species are recognised as a global problem, and their dispersal and introduction are controversial topics. However, a source of particular interest is that of human–nature interactions and consequent perceptions of natives and non ...
Ian D. Rotherham, Miles J. Watchman
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A Public Policy Toward the Management of Feral Cats [PDF]
, 2004 [Excerpt] “This paper examines the current wildlife laws, both federal and state, to determine what laws may apply to managing the feral cat population. It begins with a determination of how domestic cats are classified under these laws.
Gorman, Shawn, Levy, Julie
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Drug entry into prisons represents a serious issue for both incarcerated people and prison staff. Although substances enter prisons in many ways, staff drug smuggling represents a consistent problem facing correctional institutions globally. We draw on 131 interviews with correctional officers (COs) working in four Western Canadian prisons to ...
William J. Schultz +2 more
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‘Swan Hill’… a new ornamental fruitless olive for California
California Agriculture, 1967 The olive tree (Olea europaea L.) has very desirable characteristics for use as an ornamental. It has attractive, gray-green foliage, and develops a picturesque, gnarled trunk and branch system as the tree grows older.
H Hartmann
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Jamaica Bay: An Urban Marshland in Transition [PDF]
, 1972 This article will briefly examine the environmental problems that affect the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people who live adjacent to Jamaica Bay, and the extraordinary opportunities for recreation and enjoyment for which the Bay, freed of ...
Lefkowitz, Louis J.
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Ibis, EarlyView.Seabirds serve as key indicators of marine environmental changes, with adult survival being a critical parameter for assessing population health. Iceland hosts some of the largest seabird populations in the North Atlantic, making it a valuable location for studying long‐term trends in seabird demographics.
Sarah E. Gutowsky +6 more
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract To expose the pollution of marshes and swamps, whether by hydrocarbons or other contaminants, the French or Francophone author of the twentieth century must first confront a literary tradition that equates stagnant water with a volatile poison and, more broadly, wetlands with toxic environments. In his article “Wetland Gloom and Wetland Glory,”
François Sagot
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