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The swift annihilation of elephants and rhinos in Africa due to poaching has become a crucial international issue in the recent years. The previous explosion of the commercial poaching in Africa took place in the 70s and lasted until the late 80s when international agreements and wildlife protection programs helped to improve the crisis. As a result, poaching in Africa subsided for a brief while. However, around the same time, China and Vietnam saw an enormous increase in the demand for the…

According to DeGraaf & Yamasaki, green heron’s habitats are found in a variety of freshwater and saltwater habitats that are primarily shrub or forested wetlands. They are also found in brushy areas that are margins of slow-moving rivers, lakes, and ponds. Frequently inhabits marshes, beaver’s ponds, salt marshes, mudflats, harbors, and human-created canals and ditches. To feed, they have to be near wooded wetlands near shallow bodies for feeding. These waters should be abundant in small fishes,…

There isn’t a more exceptional developed dry season area than the tropical dry forest. This is the world’s most endangered biome. It is located in the southern part of Mexico, Southeastern Africa, the Lesser Sundas, Central India, Madagascar, New Caledonia, Eastern Bolivia, and Central Brazil. The tropical dry forest has its ups and downs. The tropical dry forest temperatures’ rise each year and get hundreds of centimeters of rain a year which makes it a perfect place for soil and vegetation.…

day’s journey. As I close my backpack, I notice a strange looking area behind the shrubs, so I walk over to investigate. I find a den like space, approximately three feet high that is filled with twigs and droppings and quickly realize that we had slept right next to a coyote den. After breakfast, we begin the hike. It is an easy walk through the small valley, the sand is firm, the sun is relatively cool, and shrubs and red rocks that cover the small hills surrounding us, provide adequate shade.…

of our hide and seek game. You can hide anywhere, but not in the woods. Search someone in the forest is like to look for a needle in a haystack. Of course, this rule was broken many times, because children afraid to be found. We often use trees and shrubs to disappear from the host’s view. Those who…

Exactly what is the purpose of an Anti-Depressant or a Depression medication? Well most certainly it is to make one feel better so they will have some sort of energy to get help. Well some medications either work or they don’t, they either make you feel like you will get better or they make you feel worse. Most defiantly you don’t want to depend on them either because then you grow an immunity to them and sooner or later you will be taking more and more in order to get your buzz off of them. But…

expect minor precipitation to fall there in the month of my visit. The soil type is dry dirt and is very dusty, as well as the area around me is very barren. I chose a site on a slope without a water drainage feature. 3. I expected to find lots of shrubs, cactus, bushes, and no grass. That is close to what I observed when I was there. I observed an Owl coming up out of a hole, and make a sound at me. Which I believed it to be a burrowing owl. In addition, I saw jumping cactus, barrel…

caught the feeling that neither Tom nor I, certainly knew how alone we were. We had stopped in our tracks when we caught a glimpse of the ideal place for us to build a fort. The area was just barely within our sight, secluded beyond a few trees and shrubs. Now it was time for us to decide what to construct, being the young children, we were, we had decided to create it by laying branches and logs across lower spots on the side of the hill where erosion had brought it down. Tom and I, had…

Turkish nomadic groups managed to take-over and control much of central Asia and settlements in Persia, Anatolian and India. The Turkish nomads managed to acclimatize their societal needs to the landscape, climate, and ecology of the arid lands before them. Though their lifestyle was void of many comforts the Turkish nomads managed to carve a niche out of the harsh landscape for themselves. Like most groups of people the Turkish people turned to their religion for comfort and protection. They…

Coast due to trapping but, the remaining ones could be found in open ground and thick vegetation that is grassier and low elevation (All About Birds). Mockingbirds are common in cities and towns in the Southeast, United States and can be found in shrubs and…