Scientists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have found that organochlorine chemicals appear to be killing birds and fish near Lake Apopka, Fla.
The 1, 875-acre site is a refuge to native and endangered plants, birds and fish.
Organizers say they'll start to accept cats and smaller animals such as hamsters, birds and fish into the shelter.
There were occasional sightings of birds and fish and flies, but nothing that Max could reach or much less eat.
These are home to many species of birds and fish, some endangered.
Together with the island's other ecosystems such as seagrass meadows, coral reefs and sandy shores, the mangroves serve as a habitat for a variety of birds, fish and plants.
"Escher did a lot of drawings, but the ones we were thinking about were the ones with lots of birds or fish, " says Adam Barnett-Hart, the group's affable first violinist.
Many of the birds, fish and animals that consume this water, depending on the amount of hazardous chemicals leaked into the pond or stream they drink from, will die quickly or slowly.
Men are closely related to animals, especially mammals, in the Torah: Both are created on the sixth day, and both are created from the earth (unlike other living creatures like birds and fish which are created without reference to preexisting material).
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The problem has long been recognized, and the aforementioned Habitats Directive -- a corollary of the 1979 Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats -- introduced a range of measures aimed at protecting endangered species (including plants, birds and fish as well as mammals).
In Myanmar, where Buddhist temples and monks proliferate, merit is attained through good deeds such as the release of caged birds and trapped fish.
Remember, with respect to birds, or fish, or marine mammals, or many insects, even amphibians and reptiles, for example: they do not acknowledge arbitrary human boundaries.
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The grasses are important because they provide food and habitat for fish, birds and other species.
Inside are the bones of countless fish and birds, along with several species of protected sharks and crabs.
Hall warns that people should avoid contact with any sick or dead birds and avoid eating fish caught in the area.
They heard how mathematicians have found that the urge to synchronize works inside flocks of birds, schools of fish and certain inorganic objects.
The Louisiana wetlands -- the nursery to fish, birds and shellfish and the foundation of life in the Gulf -- are eroding before our eyes.
Funded by Natural England, the Broads Authority hopes stonewort, pondweed and lilies will return to the area, along with a more diverse selection of fish and birds including the booming bittern.
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But she noted that with the spill moving toward land, the impact on Louisiana's coastline, which contains some 40% of the nation's wetlands and spawning grounds for countless fish and birds, had to be considered.
Fish-gobbling birds such as cormorants often range over hundreds of miles, she said.
Since their return, the fish-eating birds of prey have generated a lot of interest, and volunteers and the Forestry Commission are now providing daily updates via a blog.
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In 1972, on the basis of data on toxicity to fish and migrating birds (but not to humans), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned virtually all uses of DDT.
More than 300 white pelicans, 23 endangered wood storks, 50 other fish-eating birds (great blue herons, cormorants, ring-billed gulls, common egrets), and three bald eagles have died near the lake northwest of Orlando.
"The birds are preying on the fish in ditches and small pools northeast of the lake, " said Dale Hall, acting regional director for the Southeastern Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Fewer plankton make it harder for the fish, and therefore the birds, to survive.
Then bypass high-priced and controversial vertebrates like fish, reptiles, dinosaurs and birds.
The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust said more than 160 birds had died under the conditions and thousands of fish had been washed up on beaches in the past two months.
As fleets decline and the EU brings in new rules about discarding unwanted fish, there are fewer easy pickings for the birds at sea.
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