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BookKenz
Bear with Me Now | Katie Shepard
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Loving my view this week. 😍

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Hooked_on_books
A Solitude of Wolverines | Alice Henderson
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If, like me, you‘ve read all the Anna Pigeon books and are looking for something similar to fill that gap, look no further! Alex is a field biologist who goes to rural Montana for a wolverine study on protected land. After an extremely frosty reception from the locals, she sees a man running and vomiting on her one trail camera and things get going from there. I‘ve already put book 2 on hold.

Christine I‘ve been wanting to start this series forever based on glowing reviews on the Book Cougars podcast. Maybe this summer is the time! 3d
Bookwormjillk I love these books but don‘t know Anna Pigeon. Yay! 3d
Hooked_on_books @Bookwormjillk You‘re in for a treat! The author is Nevada Barr and there‘s a whole bunch of them. Her character Anna is an NPS ranger and they‘re all set in national parks. And Barr herself was a ranger, so there‘s a lot of authenticity there. 3d
Hooked_on_books @Christine I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! 3d
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freeatlast1137
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Lawrence Anthony details his struggle to save the last northern white rhinos.

Wonderfully written, albeit a hard read especially because rhinos are my favorite animal.

123/357

Butterfinger I may be opening a can of worms, but I wish these were the animals to be cloned. The more recently extinct. The animals that my grandchildren won't see in nature. 7d
freeatlast1137 @Butterfinger I couldn‘t agree more. 6d
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KCofKaysville
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Really interesting story of the 1930‘s flashy dress designer who fell in love with China and brought back the first live panda. It went to Brookfield Zoo in Chicago area. Author did a lot of research and it reads very well like Seabiscuit a few years ago.

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dabbe
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Saw this on my BBC feed today and LOVED it! I only have Litsy has my social, but if any of you can spread the word of this adorable kid so that it reaches Sir David himself for his 99th birthday, that would be incredible!

Here's the link to the story: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ln8r42ge6o?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=em...

Aims42 Awwww!! I love this! 1mo
dabbe @Aims42 🤩😍🤩 1mo
Leftcoastzen Awww 1mo
dabbe @Leftcoastzen 😍🤗🤩 1mo
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KCofKaysville
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Someone told me this was really good several years ago!

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bibliothecarivs
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Random book from our home library:

📖 Wild Hares & Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village by Stephen Moss

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Bookbuyingaddict
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Iv given this amazing authors book 5 stars even though I found some of the content extremely difficult to read being a huge animal lover , poaching is evil ,cruel, disastrously damaging to these wonderful creatures, who with a normal heart soul and mind could do such a thing ! The daily fight against these evil people and the removal of snares ! The chapters about the orphaned baby animals and the trauma they‘ve endured at the hands of humans

Bookbuyingaddict how the wonderful carers try to bring them back. It is a great read , an important one and probably the best Wildlife memoir since born free - listen up you tech billionaires send some millions to this sanctuary and more like it ! It‘s easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven ! Let‘s pray that‘s true . 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
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Blueberry
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1. My son adopted a feral kitten from a rescue who is very attached to only him. They now live in Los Angeles.
2. Not often.
3. The Elephant Whisperer

#WonderousWednesday
@Eggs

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
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Robotswithpersonality
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Mehso-so

Informative, fair and measured in reporting, but overall sad in tone. Hammer does a decent job of presenting Lendrum's crimes within the broader context of the demand and attraction of theft and smuggling of rare/endangered/illegal bird's eggs, within Lendrum's own life which encompasses both some unfortunate circumstances, but mostly unfortunate choices,1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? the somewhat acknowledged addictive nature of illicit collections, and some understanding of the uneven regulations and law enforcement sentencing of such crimes.
It's obviously an area that needs improvement, because the crimes are still happening, with the resulting death the endangerment and death of living creatures for at least partially a monetary gain alongside possible thrill-seeking and compulsive motives,
2mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/? (and the author is clearly pointing the finger at powerful financial backers that everyone is afraid to identify), but having read up on prisons systems it doesn't seem like that type of sentencing has or will help anyone.
The author quotes those who remark on the fact that Lendrum's skills could have been incredibly useful in science or conservation, and it seems tragic that Lendrum never found a successful rehabilitative path in that
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Robotswithpersonality 4/? direction, and further that he often took advantage of similar circumstances when available.
I'm glad that McWilliams' team exists, but he definitely feels like a somewhat sidelined force for good, rather than a true narrative foil. The amount that prosecuted bird collectors kept in touch with him post-arrest further underlines that some form of mandatory rehabilitation involving community outreach
2mo
Robotswithpersonality 5/5 rather than fines or sentences seems like a much better method of reducing recidivism.
This is as close to true crime as I want to wander in non-fiction, and as even-keeled (versus a possibly more salacious accounting of events) as it was, it pretty much validates my opinion that such stories are major bummers and involve delving into real people's personal lives in a manner that makes me uncomfortable.
⚠️animal abuse, animal death
2mo
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