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    First spoon-billed sandpiper chicks hatch in captivity (WWT)

    see the last para of my 13:13er if you're going to play God, you might as well go the whole hog ? that raises questions like who 'owns' a species, but then that question has already been raised by WWT appearing to, at least in part. They now have a stock of 'biological capital'. Do they own...
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    First spoon-billed sandpiper chicks hatch in captivity (WWT)

    firstly Alan, thanks for at least posting in your usual measured way and not seeing my moniker and replying to me in the same manner one might reply to the anti-Christ, just because I dare to give voice to an alternative opinion occasionally. At least in this thread I could understand things...
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    First spoon-billed sandpiper chicks hatch in captivity (WWT)

    I'm hardly the only one unhappy about this program accelerating the extinction of this species in the wild. I know people who are downright bloody livid about it. I'd be interested to see you argue that taking eggs from the wild is going to increase the numbers of birds in the wild. Go on, have...
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    First spoon-billed sandpiper chicks hatch in captivity (WWT)

    something tells me the Mauritian Kestrel is an island endemic, thus absolutely irrelevant to a discussion about a long-distance migrating wader
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    First spoon-billed sandpiper chicks hatch in captivity (WWT)

    or alternatively : a) this is absolutely undoubtedly hastening the bird's extinction in the wild b) this is releasing the pressure on the governments responsible for the bird's natural stop-off points as once SBS is extinct in the wild they can just say the magic words 'fait accompli' and...
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