The protestors say in some Channel races, 90% of birds have gone missing, with many presumed dead.

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Then, you see that all of the birds have gone, everything is gone you seem to be the last thing left.

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Even the birds are gone.

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Gone are the streams that used to flow down our land, gone is the swamp that we used to hunt birds in my child hood.

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