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wildasia.net/main/article contributed by Reza Azmi Gomantong Hill is the largest limestone outcrop in the Lower Kinabatangan area, and contains at least nine caves. For centuries, the Gomantong Caves have been renowned for the valuable edible birds’ nests made by two of the four species of swiftlets that roost in the caves. During the harvesting months, […]

ecologyasia.com/news-archives KUCHING: Sarawak has recorded a sharp increase in the population of wild swiftlets following the implementation of a sustainable management plan by the Forest Department for the harvesting of bird’s nest.  Researcher Dr Lim Chan Koon said the number of white-nest swiftlets in a cave in middle Baram, northern Sarawak, had shot up to […]

bayanihan.org/html/article PUERTO PRINCESA CITY – Armed elements of the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) and the Philippine Navy (PN), together with the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD), raided the Elephant Island here Saturday and arrested about 70 edible bird’s nest gatherers and watchers. The 70 gatherers and watchers were taken to […]

timesonline.co.uk
Chris Ayres in Los Angeles
A Californian condor has laid an egg in Mexico for the first time since the 1930s, with scientists watching like hawks in the hope that it will hatch any day.

The birth of a condor, one of the largest species of birds on Earth and featured on the coats of arms of several South American countries, would help to reintroduce the massive scavengers to the skies of Mexico several decades after being wiped out there.
Read more about Scientists wait at rare bird’s nest for that condor moment …

sciencedaily.com In the classic debate of nature versus nurture, University of Tulsa researchers Charles and Mary Brown have scored one for heredity — at least when it comes to cliff swallows. The Browns say their study shows that genes guide cliff swallows when they select the size of colony in which to live. They say […]

g.webring.com Bird’s Nest is rare and so expensive that only wealthy people can consume it. Many people know that it’s a “cold food” because it has a cooling effect when you consume it. In Chinese they called it “Yin”. Bird’s nest is produced by swiftlets. These birds are from the same family as the common […]

Chicago Daily Southtown, IL – Mar 28, 2014
March 28, 2014

The issue: New report says cost to repair the shuttered Cook County toboggan slides has increased dramatically.

We say: The forest preserve district must study all of its options and find a way to reopen the slides. Despite the report’s gloominess, it appears there are several practical alternatives. The slides — particularly Swallow Cliff — are too valuable an asset to remain closed.

Trying to reopen the popular Swallow Cliff toboggan slides in Palos Township has been an uphill battle. But we’re not giving up the fight, and it’s good to see the local Cook County commissioner, Elizaeth Doody Gorman, isn’t either.

The latest development concerning the slides’ fate occurred last week when a new report showed that fixing and reopening Swallow Cliff and the county’s other slides would cost $3.7 million. That’s $2.2 million more than previously had been estimated.
Read more about The fight to reopen Swallow Cliff slides must continue …

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Christianity and the environment
by Carl Wieland
‘What should we think of the Greenhouse Effect?’ AiG speakers often face questions like this on environmental matters. It is helpful, even vital, to view such things from a Biblical perspective. But in a complex world, it may not be possible to give a rigidly ‘for’ or ‘against’ Christian response. Biblical principles are unchanging, but the situations we face, and the information available, are not.
Imagine you are a bureaucrat in 19th-century South America, contemplating the vast, seemingly limitless expanse of the Amazon jungle. Some poor villagers ask you for a permit to clear an acre for their crops. Or you’re the same bureaucrat in the distant future; some rich estate-owner asks if he can clear one of the last remaining stands of Amazonian trees, home of some of the rarest and most beautiful of God’s creatures, because they obstruct the breeze to his mansion. Presumably your response would be different in each case! Read more about Fouling the nest …

suite101.com/article BirdingBy Fred J. Kane Hirundo pyrrhonota Vieillot The Cliff Swallows usually come into view in early days of May. In summer they stay only in the surrounding area of their usual nesting settlements. The number of this birds breeding in the provinces seems to have declined. Birders see small numbers after the month of […]