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May 2018

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24 May 2018
Europe and the Palearctic
ShrewSpain

Shrew Identification (Spain)

Last July, I photographed the following Shrew in my hotel room in Sallent de Gallego, Spain (1305 meters elevation, just across the border from Lac d’Ayous). Does anyone have

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24 May 2018
Europe and the Palearctic
France

New Trip Report: Pyrenean Desman in France

Desmans are surely one of Europe’s coolest mammals, and yet two years ago it was extremely hard to know where reliably to look for them. Ben Schwienhart’s 2017 report c

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Offset your Greenhouse Gases when you fly - and protect Gola Rainforest

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